OCTOBER 2020


ANNE MARIE'S PLAYLIST

STEPHEN'S PLAYLIST


ANNE MARIE TO STEPHEN:

AM: What is your favorite song?

SB:  Ok, you definitely buried the lead here. Thinking I'd get hung up on Chez Moi and I wouldn't sniff out Judy? SHE'S HANGING THE FREAKING MOON, you're not going to sneak that one past me. Yes, you called it. It's my Blue Lagoon vibe that I'm really digging right now. Well played, HARBOUR, and well played, AM.

AM: Have you heard any of these tracks before?

SB: All new, nicely done!

AM:  What are some of the weirdest places you’ve ever stopped everything and tried to shazam, asked someone or gone running down the street to find out what a song is?

SB: One time I was at a very crowded bar. A song came on and I thought...I must have this song, but I either couldn't get a good clean take for Shazam or it wasn't connecting to the Internet, so there was only one solution. I worked my way, pushing, shoving past the other patrons surrounding the bar. When I finally made my way to the front, it took damn near 20 minutes to get the attention of the bartender. He came over, we both leaned in so he could hear my drink order and I asked him what song was playing (a few songs ago by now). He looked at me like I had just kicked his new puppy. How dare I with everything he had going on? He didn't say a word and just moved on to someone else. I quickly put the $10 back in my pocket that I was planning on tipping him when he brought back the intel. Still to this day, have no clue what it was.


STEPHEN TO ANNE MARIE:

SB: What is your favorite song?

AM: John Parm, No Soul Fo Sale.

SB: Have you heard any of these tracks before?

AM: Charlie Burg sounds familiar but I can’t place why. Otherwise you got me. It’s kind of crazy that we’ve been doing this for this long now and we don’t have more crossover or awareness, isn’t it? I think that’s pretty cool.

SB: What is one (or a few) of the funniest lines you've ever heard in a song? Something that made you stop in your tracks, rewind, then burst out laughing when you realized it's as ridiculous as you thought you heard it the first time. 

AM: I gotta be honest and say Your Body Is a Wonderland is pretty high up there. I went to John Mayer’s concert last year (when I was 2019 happy and the world was a different place) and he told a story about that song and the lyrics and “bubblegum tongue” and just how tortured his relationship with the song is. It’s just one of those songs that’s so on the nose you can’t help but laugh at. Don’t get me wrong, he’s got me with his narratives and his lyrics on almost every other song he has released to date. But that one just makes me laugh. I could also throw on my list some pop songs in like Ariana and rap songs that have ridiculous euphemisms for sex. T-Pain’s lyrics make me laugh. Although, even with saying this I feel like I have to acknowledge that in the right moment, surrounded by the right people, even these songs can sneak up on you!