What the Lyric Becky and Matthew

Episode 6 - Party Anthems.  This episode Becky and Matthew talk about what makes a Party Anthem.  Is it the repetitive lyrics?  A good dance beat?  Or perhaps just a call to get drunk and rowdy.  One song is from the 1987 (guess who's pick that was) and the other song is from 2009.
 
                                                                               PARTY ANTHEMS
BECKY 0:07 
Welcome to what the lyric, the podcast that confirms Yeah, that actually made it to radio.
 
BECKY 0:22 
Well hello everybody welcome to what the lyric, today we're talking party anthems. Again I took that to mean any song that everyone will sing along to. Or like the end all be all karaoke because there's always those karaoke songs that everyone busts out or the end of the night the drunkies all sing together slurred speech and all
 
MATTHEW 0:50 
Now tell me what is your familiarity with parties slash karaoke?
 
BECKY 0:56 
Uh, not really karaoke so much but I have I've been to a number of parties in my day, mostly in my younger days. I don't do like the parties, you know, much.
 
MATTHEW 1:07
You don’t get swasted?
 
BECKY 1:09
Oh god, no. If I get wasted now it takes me like a week to recover. We went to go, a friend of mine and I went to go see a show. We each had one drink. The show is on a Thursday night when it was like a beer because we're not that kind of people. Show is on a Thursday night, we both walked into work the next day, and we're like, we should have taken today off.
 
BECKY 1:31 
That's how bad it was. So yeah,
 
MATTHEW 1:35 
Well, well done
 
BECKY 1:37 
 Back in the day. I did. I did boot and rally once.
 
MATTHEW 1:41 
No idea what that means.
 
BECKY 1:43 
Oh, so when you boot and rally means you've thrown up. And then you just get right back on the horse and start drinking again.
 
MATTHEW 1:50 
Oh, I see the horse boots ya and you rally,
 
BECKY 1:55 
You boot as in throw up and then you rally and you go back party. That was also the same time that I said, I could totally do a triathlon and then ended up doing having to do a triathlon. Not that same day, but like two years later I yeah.
 
MATTHEW 2:13 
That’s pretty rough.
 
BECKY 2:16 
Yeah, that was about 10 years ago.
 
MATTHEW 2:23 
Nope I’m not a party-er I’m a big old square generally. I just value sleep entirely too much. I love the taste alcohol. And like I'm a generally fun drunk, but my God, that for sleeping is like totally the worst. I'm trying to think of like the worst drunk I've ever been. Well, couple events.
 
BECKY 2:46 
I know. I was like, oh I got a few.
 
MATTHEW 2:49 
I think the dumbest one. I think the one that really encapsulates how I party may actually shape the song that I've chosen is the fact that I got horrifically drunk at Fourth of July like a couple of years ago, also is very stupid.
 
BECKY 3:04 
Please tell me Star Spangled Banner is your song?
 
MATTHEW 3:06 
Yes. No, it's what's the one that everyone has to listen to every Fourth of July. Born in the USA?
 
BECKY 3:13 
Yeah. Oh, fabulous.
 
MATTHEW 3:14
Born in the USA. But really what happened, I am incredibly pale. I lose water like nobody's business there was a rooftop party. They had no water, just alcohol. So for the entire day, I had no water and was only drinking alcohol until like midnight and I'm like, Why do I feel so ill? That's weird. Oh, I'm incredibly dehydrated. And you know, thank God, but I really, as I laid on that cold bathroom tile floor. I was like, I'm going to die here.
 
BECKY 3:50 
Ah, that was me with kidney stones. So I know is the cold floor. And I'm going to die here. But yes, I feel you.
 
BECKY 3:59 
 I feel very sane and I appreciate.
 
BECKY 4:02 
Similar pain Yeah.Oh God never kidney stones.
 
BECKY 4:09 
 I know I have gone

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

In this episode Becky and Matthew delve deep into the late 80s and the early 2000s hip hop.  Will it be a hip hop battle to end all battles?
 
What the Lyric?
Rap/Hip-Hop
 
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Becky: Welcome to What the Lyric?, the podcast that confirms. Yeah, that actually made it to radio.
 
Welcome to What the Lyric? Today we are talking about hip-hop, the rap. I don't know what else I'd call it.
 
Matthew: The rap.
 
Becky: The rap.
 
Matthew: I mean you are talking to the two white people in the room talking about hip-hop. That is what this episode is.
 
Becky: I know. Oh, this is going to go down horribly. Although I do love my 80s, rap and I love the old Run DMC stuff before Aerosmith. Who else is in there? I am trying to think. A tribe called Quest. Although I cannot remember if they were 80s or not. It all runs together now for me. Then, of course, Public Enemy. I don't think that was 80s. Maybe they were 80s. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, there is a lot in there. 3rd Bass. That is right; I pull out 3rd Base, which you will never know. But the one guy in 3rd Base, a white guy is now like a baseball historian at Cooperstown, if I remember correctly.
 
Matthew: That is a turn career.
 
Becky: Yeah, Pete Nice. Was it Pete Nice? Oh I don't think it was Pete Nice. I cannot remember who it was now.
 
Matthew: Was it was not Pete Townsend?
Becky: No, now I am going to have to look it up. Who were the members of 3rd Base? Yeah, so that is where I am coming from.
 
Matthew: Interesting. Mine, you know. Like, that is all I really need to say. We actually had a very interesting discussion at the end of the last episode talking about where does R&B begin versus hip-hop specifically.
 
Becky: Yes.
 
Matthew: I approach hip-hop from the more R&B side. So I am thinking Beyoncé, Lemonade.
 
Becky: All right, okay.
 
Matthew: To an extent, Drake, although he is not my favourite.
 
Becky: Oh God!
 
Matthew: And then smaller artists, particularly from the HBO show Insecure, has some very good hip-hop…
 
Becky: See I don’t know that.
 
Matthew: References. TT the artists. What is the name of the song? Is featured in it. She is great. Now I will have to introduce you to it. Then, of course, where would we be? But two people, two white people talking about hip hop. Also, listen to the entirety of Hamilton and needed to get said. There it is. It has been said we can now glaze past it.
 
Becky: I only know the Alexander Hamilton [Making sound 00:2:56]. I don't know anything else.
 
Matthew: That is all you need to know. That is what the musical is.
 
Becky: Yeah, I. Oh, man. I think I was right with Pete Nice. What did I say? Oh, my God.
 
Matthew: You did say Pete Nice.
 
Becky: Yeah. There is MC Serch and Pete Nice, but I feel like. Yeah. Pete Nice. Baseball historian, I had it right the first time.
 
Matthew: Well, with a band name like 3rd Base, you kind of have to.
 
Becky: They had a song called The Cactus.
 
Matthew: Why?
 
Becky: I can't even remember. I just remember The Cactus. I am sure I still have that CD somewhere. But yeah, The Cactus.
 
Matthew: I love.
 
Becky: I cannot even remember. It is all gone. It is so bad; they did have a big hit. What was their big hit?
 
Matthew: Was, it baseball related?
 
Becky: No, surprisingly. You would think with a name like 3rd Base. Pop goes the weasel.
 
Matthew: Oh.
 
Becky: From 1991. I remember that. That sounds like a hit. I did not have that one. I had the Cactus album and that was eighty-nine derelicts of dialect, which had the pop, goes the weasel.
Yep, that was ninety-one. That was when I graduated high school.
 
Matthew: I won't say where I was at the time.
 
Becky: And a hoodie [Laughing], moving on. All right. I am going to let you go first this time.
 
Matthew: All right. So like I said, my primary job on this podcast is to serve as millenn

Join Becky and Matthew as they turn their attention to musicals - both the broadway kind and the movie musical kind.  One is from the golden age of Broadway.  The other is from a little know movie opera from 2008.  Both deserve to be skewered.
 
What the Lyrics?
Musicals
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Becky: Hey, guys, just a quick note. When we went to record this, I left my headphones at home so I couldn't hear the funky noises that were happening when I was banging on the table during this discussion because I was so excited and heated about this discussion of musical songs. I apologize for that. Hopefully doesn't interfere with you loving the episode and liking us a million times and telling your friends about how awesome we are. With that said, I hope you enjoy it, and next time I will remember my headphones.
 
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Becky: Welcome to What the Lyric? The podcast that confirms, yeah, that actually made it to radio. Welcome to Episode 3 of What the Lyric? Today we are talking musicals. How are you doing Matt?
 
Matthew: I am doing pretty well considering how much research I had to do into bad musicals, of which there are many.
 
Becky: There are a lot and a lot have made money, which is the part that I don't quite get. I am not sure how they made money because they were so bad.
 
Matthew: Agreed, and I took a broad stance on the definition of musicals. So thinking more along the lines of not just Broadway musicals, but off Broadway and basically movie musicals.
 
Becky: It was the movie ones that I was kind of like, do I go Disney? Because Disney has some crap lyrics, or I could go to all the stuff, we did when I was in high school. What did we do? We did Grease, but we had to change the lyrics on some of the stuff because it was too racy.
 
Matthew: Such as?  
 
Becky: In one of the songs about him meeting. It was some weird slang for condom, but we could use it.
Matthew: Was it rubber?
 
Becky: It was not using. I don't think it was. I would have to look it up but I think it was rubber. I feel like it was something like balloon or something. But you knew what it was when he was thinking about it. So we had to kind of do like the radio edit and go [sound 00:2:30] or something in it so that you filled in the blank.
 
Matthew: Which teenager does not know about condoms?
 
Becky: Oh my god. It was in the 1990s.
 
Matthew: Oh, they really did not know about condom.  
 
Becky: 1991, so we should have. I mean it was all coming up then so we should have left it in there but no.
 
Matthew: I mean our high school did Wizard of Oz. That is very wholesome to an extent considering the fans, I don’t know, destruction.
 
Becky: Yeah. The Wizard of Oz. What else do we do? Of course, there is always music Man Fiddler on the Roof.
 
Matthew: South Pacific.
 
Becky: You guys had some serious production.
 
Matthew: I did not say it was good.
 
Becky: High school musicals are very rarely good. I mean, let us be realistic on that one. I went back to my high school musical roots for mine.
 
Matthew: I think that is a perfect segue way into me asking
 
Becky: Okay.
 
Matthew: Where did you go?
 
Becky: All right.
 
Matthew: Take us back.
 
Becky: We are going back to and in the movie sung by Buddy Hackett, who I remember from when I was younger and he was an older man who I have this vague recollection of him being like a dirty old man kind of guy.
 
Matthew: I mean he was way. Wait, when was this made?
 
Becky: 60-65, let us say. I want to say 65. No, Sorry. Well, the musical was 57; 62 was the movie.
 
Matthew: That was a generation of dirty old men.
 
Becky: Yeah, yeah. Also covered by the Family Guy and several other outlets. I am just in a dive right into it. You ready?
 
Matthew: I don't believe so, but I'm willing to listen.
 
Becky: I think this first group, set it up nicely. Well, a woman who will kiss you on

In this episode, we bring our favorite bad lyrics from 1990 - 1999. One song from a group who don’t quite understand the meaning of bizarre.  And another from an artist who likes to rattle off a lot of ladies names in no particular order.
 
Episode2 What the Lyric – the 90s
 
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Becky Morrette and Matthew Seymour
 
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[Becky Morrette]: Welcome to what the lyric, the podcast that confirms, yeah, that actually made it to radio.
 
[Music]
 
[Becky Morrette]: Welcome to episode two of what the lyric where we dub into the really bad lyrics of the 90s. The 90s for me, that's when I graduated high school and went to college in San Francisco. So, let's see how much of the 90s I remember. How about you Matt?
 
[Matthew Seymour]: You know, I also don't remember much of the 90s, admittedly, for different reasons.
 
[Becky Morrette]: Yeah
 
[Matthew Seymour]: Particularly since I was born in 1990.
 
[Becky Morrette]: Oh, Jesus.
 
[Matthew Seymour]: [Laugh] So I remember from about 95 on, and music was definitely not on my radar.
 
[Becky Morrette]: That's about when I remember it because I had stopped with the weed and the alcohol by then.
 
[Matthew Seymour]: You stopped? Once I found it. I never stopped.
 
[Becky Morrette]: Oh my God. That's another story. Off mic in case my parents are listening.
Yeah. My mother, side note, my mother, by the way, one time we were, she's going to love that I'm telling this. We were leaving a mall when I'd come home from school. And I looked over and I swear to God, the people in the car next to me were smoking a bowl. And my mom goes, I said, Dad, “are they smoking a bowl?” My father, being a high school teacher, knew the slang and my mom was like ´´smoking a bowl? How do you smoke out of a bowl? It's a bowl, I don't understand how you smoke out of this´´. And my father, very quietly said ´´You brought it up, you explain it´´.
[Matthew Seymour]: [Laughs]
 
 [Becky Morrette]: I didn't. I didn't at all.
 
[Matthew Seymour]: God bless your parents.
 
 [Becky Morrette]: A bowl? What? I don't understand how you smoke out of a bowl.
 
[Matthew Seymour]: How do you do something like that.
 
[Becky Morrette]: That is Ridiculous. What do mean? you can't. there is now to smoke it get something in a bowl. So, yeah, so that's enough about my mom.
 
[Matthew Seymore]: [laughs]
 
[Becky Morrette]: she's going to kill me. Yeah.
 
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[Matthew Seymore]: What do you remember of the 90s music scene?
 
[Becky Morrette]: So at that point we, I, we I remember, Oh, this is a good one. I remember seeing I think it was house of pain and biohazard and somebody else on the same bill and that that was a big I don't know. That was early on in the night in the in the 90s.
I remember like Smashing Pumpkins. I remember Nirvana, all that all that stuff. Plus, I also remember In synch, the Backstreet Boys, the Brittany's. Oh, my God.
 
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[Matthew Seymore]: Now you are talking my language.
 
[Becky Morrette]: Oh yeah. Oh, it's bad. It's just bad.
 
[Matthew Seymore]: Who loves the 90s? We love.
 
[Becky Morrette]: I totally love the 90s and the 80s. There were a few in there that I was like, wow. I when doing the research for this, I was like, whoa, I forgot ice ice baby with ninety-one.
 
[Matthew Seymore]: Wow.
 
[Becky Morrette]: Yeah.
 
[Matthew Seymore]: I did not realize this.
 
[Becky Morrette]: Yeah. I mean. Hello. Talk about awful.
 
[Matthew Seymore]: [laughs]
 
[Becky Morrette]: But yet everybody knows it. And when that shit comes on everybody's up there dancing along.
 
[Matthew Seymore]: I’m already dancing.
 
[Becky Morrette]: Yeah. You can’t not. You see you see the hair also M.C. Hammer.
 
 
[Matthew Seymore]: What? What?
 
 [Becky Morrette]: Yes. Can't touch this.
 
[Matthew Seymore]: As in Yeah. Which was

 
 Episode #1 Description
 
Welcome to “What the Lyric?!?” In this episode, we bring our favorite bad lyrics from Pop Music (c. 2016-2019). One song from an artist who desperately wants to fix her “Reputation” with some cringe-y spoken-word lyrics. And another from a Brit whose time would best be spent learning to “let go” of the booze.
 
Transcript of Episode #1
 
Becky: Welcome to What the Lyric?!? -- the podcast that confirms...yeah, that actually made it to radio.
 
Matt: Is it recording?
 
Becky: Oh now we’re recording. Oh fun!
 
Matt: Oh yay!
 
Becky: Hello everybody and welcome to What the Lyric?!? where we talk about how much we love awful, awful lyrics. A little bit about me: I’m Becky. I will listen to anything once, and over and over again if it’s really bad. And then there’s Matthew over here, my partner in crime…
 
Matt: You know, honestly, if you had to summarize my musical tastes, the best way to look at it would be to say that my go-to karaoke song is “Promiscuous” by Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland.
 
Becky: So you know we have good taste. That goes without saying. How this whole podcast is going to work is...We have one song each that {...} we get to pick off the theme of the episode. Today’s theme is Pop Music from 2016 to 2019. We get to do a dramatic reading, and after the dramatic reading, we talk about why the lyrics are SO bad and why we had to call it out. All right, so starting first is...Matthew.
 
Matt: Okay.
 
Becky: Get ready.
 
Matt: Definitely get ready for this. So I chose a song...just to give you a little context for this: it comes from, I believe, August of 2017. So put yourself in that state of mind. It’s a year after the election; things are terrible...still.
 
Becky: I was probably high.
 
Matt: I mean, weren’t we all?
 
Becky: Yeah.
 
Matt: It is Seattle.
 
Becky: You’d have to be.
 
Matt: And so this person has decided to reshape their image and, you know, I’ll just let the lyrics speak for themselves:
 
“I don’t like your little games
Don’t like your tilted stage
The role you made me play
Of the fool, no, I don’t like you
I don’t like your perfect crime
How you laugh when you lie
You said the gun was mine
Isn’t cool, no, I don’t like you (oh!)”
 
Matt: And that’s the first stanza.
 
Becky: Okay, so I’m guessing… Who’d be packing heat in 2017, you said? August?
 
Matt: Uh huh. Changing the image!
 
Becky: Could be… Oh! Changing the image? Only because of the changing image thing, that would be Taylor Swift?
 
Matt: Correct.
 
Becky: Oh the Swifties.
 
Matt: But do you...do you know the song?
 
Becky: Oh Jesus! Is it that...It’s the one where she then breaks it down and says, “Oh, Taylor Swift isn’t here right now. Because she’s dead!” Something along those lines? *Laughs*
 
Matt: This would be “Look What You Made Me Do” by Taylor Swift.
 
Becky: Oh yes. *Repeats the phrase “Look What You Made Me Do” twice.* Or however the rest goes.
 
Matt: Exactly. And really, my choice for all of the songs in this podcast are based on what I like to call “Cringecore.”
 
Becky: I love that. We are going to copyright that.
 
Matt: *Laughs* Really any songs that have lyrics that [make you go] “Oh!” You’ve heard of cringe comedy; that’s kind of how I view these lyrics.
 
Becky: I like it.
 
Matt: And specifically the -- what makes this so cringey is what you already mentioned, the, let’s find it…”I’m sorry the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now” set to the background music of, “Ooh, look what you made me do.” “Why?” “Oh ‘cause she’s dead!
Becky: The old Taylor is, like, what? 23? 24? I mean, she’s not old.
 
Matt: She’s got a guitar. I mean, her…
 
Becky: She’s country. Country Taylor.
 
Matt: She’s Country-Pop.
 
Becky: Yeah.
 
Matt: