[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to Friendly Competition, a podcast to discover the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey, alongside my co host and best friend, Cody Lena. We discussed various pop culture topics inherit down to truly the best of all.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: Time, or as we like to call it, the boat. Before he gets a foot on the boat, we put him into a sweet 16 south tournament. We argue each round till we decide a winner. Nick, what criteria do we use? We decide he steps foot on the boat.
[00:00:39] Speaker A: Whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want to tell him what we're talking about this season?
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Absolutely. We went back in time to look at all of our favorite albums. We got out our big album book and dusted it off. And I was going through all my emo from high school, but when I got to 2004, turns out I only had poppy bangers because that's all you needed. That's all you needed. Nick looked at his. He had some pop bangers and, like, some barney stuff. Because you were just a baby.
[00:01:01] Speaker A: I was just a will baby. I was in middle school. I was still. I think this is the last, if I'm remembering right, the birthday that I had that would have been in. That would have fallen under this school year. I think this is. I think I still got, like, bionicles from Lego. Like, I still. I think this was, like the last of the, like, oh, hey, we're not.
[00:01:21] Speaker B: The last of the good birthdays is what you're.
[00:01:23] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:01:23] Speaker A: Basically, before I had to become an adult and get. And just get socks and ties all the time, this was. This was the last time I got to just have a true child's child's birthday. But here we are, folks. We are in group D, which means Group A, B, C have already happened. So go listen to those, see who their champions are and who they will be facing against in the final four. From Group D, where we have the three seed move your body by Nina sky. Going up against the 14 seed goodies by Sierra, featuring Petey Pablo. We have the 6th seed, if I got you by Alicia Keys, going up against the eleven seed float on by modest mouse. Cody, where do you want to start?
[00:02:04] Speaker B: Let's start with if I ain't got you versus float on by modest mouse. If we're looking at it just bigger songs, I think it's got to be if I ain't got you easy, right. But float on is one of the songs that was, like, key for me in finding the music that I like.
[00:02:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Right.
[00:02:18] Speaker B: It was so important for me, like, without float on, I wouldn't have went down the road and listened to, I mean, obvious, like, the December is bright.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Eyes and stuff like that.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: But then also, like, I don't think I would have. I might have opened the emo door, but I wouldn't kicked it in, you know?
[00:02:31] Speaker A: Right. Like, this was. This was, like, an important song when it comes to getting radio play.
[00:02:36] Speaker C: Right.
[00:02:37] Speaker A: Like, this is a song that everyone knew, and so then you could start back, oh, modest mouse. Who else is it? Franz Ferdinand.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: Oh, what are you doing? Exactly. Like, even, like, the bands are and all that stuff.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Yeah. And so you're right. I mean, obviously, this is. This is the number three song of the year. If I ain't got you by Alicia Keys is the number three song. So this thing is. Plays, like, there's no doubt about it that this.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: And it would be hard to go against the fact, like, I can't just say blown on is a better song than if I ain't got you, because Alicia Keys is good. It's very good.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: It's actually a very, very good song by Alicia Keys. So you're, like, stuck there being like.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: It'S not like, oh, float on is gonna get some pop garbage. It's like, no, absolutely not.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: I did not realize that this. Okay. I don't know if this changes your mind or anything about what the song is about. I think we all were, like, of the tip that it's like, oh, if I got you, babe. Some people want diamond ring some I just want you.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Yeah, right.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: A great love song. Wonderful, beautiful love song. It is not about love.
I'm just reading this from Wikipedia here. Inspired by the 2001 death of singer Aaliyah and the September 11 attacks and other events in the world and in keys life, this song is about how material things don't feed the soul. Hey, hey, Alicia Keys. If you're going to hint at, like, 911, could you give a bigger clue?
[00:04:01] Speaker B: Because I. Clue or any.
[00:04:03] Speaker A: Because Toby Keef did say, we're going to put a boot in your ass. It's the american way. And that helped me know. Oh, he's inspired. This song is inspired by the events of 911. I had no idea.
Just a nice little love song. I was like, oh. And now I'm almost like, oh, it's deeper. Like, do we have. I was like, are we forced to move it on if we don't get.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: With Alicia Keys because she wasn't as obvious as one of America's great propagandists of all time?
[00:04:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:04:29] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: Okay, fair enough. Fair enough.
[00:04:31] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: No, I'm just going to say, if you're going to. If you're gonna. If all music. If all pop music. And this is true, if all pop music is just a sia, right.
[00:04:40] Speaker C: And it is.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: It's just something the government puts out that they crafted it. They made the beat, they made the lyrics, they just put in artists.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: I love the fact that doctor dre.
[00:04:50] Speaker A: Is a government agent, dude, it is badass.
[00:04:53] Speaker B: Like, if you think of it that way, like our top government men, this is Doctor Dre. He's in the lab working on it.
[00:05:01] Speaker A: I'm just saying, if all pop music is just a psyop for us, I feel like they just could have went harder in the paint on the fact that this song is in remembrance of 911.
[00:05:13] Speaker C: I'm just saying.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: Here's what I'm saying.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: She's missing out on a lot of 911 money, dude.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: For sure. Can you imagine if she wrote this song and she put it out on an album? It was just called Never Forget and had a picture with two towers on it. So many people, white people would have bought this album that refused previously because racist. I'm not going to lie. That racist.
[00:05:32] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: But if it's about 911 and that's.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: Definitive, we're like, if it's about 911 and definitive, a racist white person is not allowed to not have the album.
[00:05:41] Speaker A: Yeah, they have to. They just had to own it. It was a cheat code back then up to 2004. I think it was about the last year. You could really get that in versus float on.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: Float on.
[00:05:51] Speaker A: Hey, real quick, who am I?
[00:05:53] Speaker B: Wait, what's that? Also about 2000.
There's tech going to need.
[00:05:58] Speaker A: Gonna need to check now because I apparently wasn't as good of a figuring that out as I thought I was.
It does not appear to be about 911.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: That's if we are given an op. If you give me a nick enough time in the lyrics, we can make it about 911.
[00:06:17] Speaker A: We'll just mention he does specifically say. He does dunk on George Bush in it. He does specifically call out the fact that, like, the fact that George Bush, he's like, every day is a daily dose of bad news. Oh, man. Hey.
[00:06:30] Speaker C: Hey.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: Actually, now I'm kind of pissed off.
[00:06:32] Speaker C: Hey. Hey.
[00:06:32] Speaker A: Lead singer of modest mouse. Hey, I get it. I was there in 2004. I wasn't as aware, but I started watching the daily show around this time. So I was kind of up in what was happening. Hey, we did have Donald Trump as the president for four years. You didn't want to put out float on two. You didn't want to use it. You didn't think that that news cycle didn't warrant us? The sequel to float on?
[00:06:58] Speaker B: Fuck you, dude, we haven't earned it. Dude, we haven't earned it. Here's. I'm actually really torn because of how much. How much float on, like, actually influenced my musical taste for a long time. But I think I gotta go if we're going. Summer throw down bops. I gotta go if I ain't got you.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: That's my only problem is, like, when it comes to the summer summer song, not best song of 2004, but a summer summer song song. And is I ain't got.
[00:07:24] Speaker C: Yes. It's.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: It's a nice song, but it's not like float on is summer.
[00:07:29] Speaker C: Right.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Like, that has that summer vibe to me, and like you said, it does have the significance of bringing a lot of people to the. To all types of genres of music. I'm. I am gonna go with photo. I feel confident in this.
[00:07:45] Speaker B: And we know I can't flip. I got to go float on, too. Okay. I was just thinking in my head, I just got lost in the sauce. I love Alicia Key. I love that song. But it's got to be float on.
[00:07:54] Speaker A: Yeah, it's summertime.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: Like, if that song comes on, I can have a cocktail. If I ain't got you comes on, I can't have a cocktail. I'm too busy belting.
[00:08:01] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:08:02] Speaker A: All right, next up we have the three seed move your body by Nina sky, going up against the 14 seed goodies by Sierra featuring Petey Poplar. Obviously, they heard the song freak a leak by Petey Pablo. And, like, you know who we should get on this song with? A teenage girl that. That man who's doing who. Who sings this freak a league. Ah, yes. Get that man in here with this young woman.
[00:08:26] Speaker C: This.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: This is. This is not me making any alligator. I don't think Petey Pablo is. I mean, he served his time. He never did anything like that, though. I think his was violent crimes. So, I mean, we.
[00:08:37] Speaker B: Hey, I'm not saying he did. I'm not saying he didn't. I'm not. I'm not on trial here.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. I don't know why you're looking at me like that.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: I'm just saying if you put a violent criminal who's rapid, really sexual lyrics room with a 15 year old girl, it seems odd to me.
[00:08:49] Speaker A: It just seems like a weird pairing is all I'm going to say. That's all I'm going to say.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: They were sure it was a gentleman.
[00:08:56] Speaker A: So, Cody, you. So when we put this together and we were looking through.
[00:09:00] Speaker C: Right.
[00:09:00] Speaker A: We went, we gave, we looked for the top 16 songs of this year, right. Of this summer. And move your body by Nina sky. Kept coming up, kept coming up over and over. So we put it on you. I knew what it was. You were kind of confused when you, when you put it on, though. What was that experience like for you to hear it again? Did it rattle your bones? Did it shake in your core? Was something awoken?
[00:09:25] Speaker B: It did get me a little bit going. I got that course, like, move your body, girl. I was like, oh, I remember that.
[00:09:30] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: I don't remember any of the video. Everything. This is all a mystery to me. And I didn't remember that there were twin women making house music. For some reason. I feel like that was, should have been a bigger deal in the two thousands.
[00:09:42] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: Right.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: If deaf punk wasn't even twins, is it because they weren't pretending to be robots? Girls, you should have pretended to be robots.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: I.
[00:09:49] Speaker C: That would.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: I think that helps a lot. Honestly. That does feel like a cheat code in the, in the house music world.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: Just.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: Robot helmet. Hey, put on helmet. Robot helmet, dad.
[00:09:59] Speaker C: Punk.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: Robot helmet.
[00:10:01] Speaker A: Marshmallow.
[00:10:02] Speaker B: Marshmallow. Robot helmet.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: Robot helmet ish. There's a few other ones where I'm like, oh, it's just another dude in a helmet.
[00:10:10] Speaker B: Oh, bucket head. Anything?
[00:10:12] Speaker A: Is that anything?
[00:10:14] Speaker B: I don't.
[00:10:14] Speaker A: I think he was doing more rock, but sure, why not?
But for you, you're saying that, like, here's the thing.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: When I heard Sierra, I wanted to get to goodies. I heard Sierra, I was like, oh, that's the freakily track. But it wasn't as good. It's just a worst version of Freaka League.
[00:10:30] Speaker C: Jude.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: It's the same beat.
[00:10:32] Speaker C: Is it?
[00:10:32] Speaker A: Is it the same, same beat?
Hold on. You might have just, you might have just uncovered something I have to give for you folks. We will edit this, and it will come back quickly. But I have to hear these really quick and discern this a few moments later. They are different.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: They are different. We're back.
[00:10:53] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: They're live, though. Definitely safer on that very same.
[00:10:57] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:10:58] Speaker A: Timbaland. Timbaland's around somewhere. Missy Elliot is around all of this, coordinating what's happening. I. I do not hear it as a worst freak. I do think that it's. I think it's a great song. I think. Oh, I think goodies.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: I have a. Goodies did nothing. I have no recollection of it. I must. I'm sure I heard it. I was alive. But this song did not stand the test of time. That nothing. There's not a single memorable thing about this. The beat is generic. The songs generic. The lyrics are generic. Not impressed.
[00:11:27] Speaker A: And this is about goodies. Not good.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: This is about goodies.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: Really?
[00:11:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:11:32] Speaker A: You're so. You're more even, like, you think movie body. Even though you were less. You knew less about that song, I feel like. Than goodies.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: Yeah. But now that I've listened to movie body, it's bringing back memories of, like, at least I know the chorus.
[00:11:43] Speaker C: Goodies.
[00:11:43] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:11:44] Speaker C: Shit.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: This is bad.
[00:11:45] Speaker C: Every.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: Everyone knows, actually. Okay, here's what I think's happening, Cody, if I'm being 100% honest.
[00:11:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:11:50] Speaker A: I'm looking at the album that goodies is on, and I do know the song goodies.
[00:11:54] Speaker C: Goodies.
[00:11:54] Speaker A: Not my goodies.
[00:11:56] Speaker C: But you're right.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: The second I had to do the chorus, I immediately did the chorus for one two step by her.
[00:12:01] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. It's.
[00:12:01] Speaker A: Let me see you one two step rock. You can't stop it. And I was like, oh, no, dude.
[00:12:08] Speaker C: Moving.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: I do know that, actually. I do. One thing I remember about goodies was that it felt like because I. Milkshake had already come out. Milkshake by police has already come out in this time, in this timeline. And so goodies really felt like they were like, okay, so we need to do milk. We need to basically redo that song, but it has to be even less explicit.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: Less explicit. That's the problem with music nowadays.
[00:12:35] Speaker C: They.
[00:12:35] Speaker B: I want it more explicit. I want.
[00:12:38] Speaker A: I want back to the freak league days. I want.
[00:12:42] Speaker B: I want back into the freak league days of last month. I want it to be. Yeah, I don't want to be my milkshake. My vagina.
[00:12:49] Speaker A: Yeah, just say it. I'm tired of all this.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: It's probably actually your boobs if it's milkshake. I've not. I'm just thinking about it now.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: I can't remember what. It just brought the boys to the yard. I. I think I'm closer to probably. I think I'm closer to goodies still, though.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: I'm still a movie body. I think at least it has, like, a catchy dance rhythm and lyrics that you could sing and. I don't know. Goodies is nothing. This is nothing. I'm listening to it currently. It's nothing. It's not even bad. It's nothing.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: I still enjoy it. I'm still. I'm still having fun. With the song. I haven't, I haven't, like, forsaken it. I'm like, oh, yeah, this is good. This is fun.
[00:13:25] Speaker B: I do like Sierra.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: It's Sierra's first song of these. These are both their first songs.
[00:13:30] Speaker C: Right.
[00:13:31] Speaker A: One of these artists does go on to have a career of some import. The other one does not.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: I just say I met if I'm at a summer banger party, I prefer move your body to come up.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: In that regard. I do feel like move your body would be like the, like the of 2004. I do feel like this is that sneaky low key, like, everyone back.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: Oh, what?
[00:13:52] Speaker A: Like they would like first not know it and then this song, then they would real. Okay. I think I could. I. I see from that angle, this would be a much more fun if we're out playing it.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: Yes. For the body. Did I convince you?
[00:14:08] Speaker C: You did. You did.
[00:14:09] Speaker A: So I will move it on.
[00:14:10] Speaker C: Where?
[00:14:11] Speaker A: So now we have move your body going up against float on by modest mouse.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: If I gave you a dollar for every time one of these songs played on the radio today. You're not making any money off move your body. You're rich in one day off float.
[00:14:26] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: You're itch like it's all over still. I hear float on at least once a day when I'm in my accounts doing whatever, you know.
[00:14:33] Speaker A: Florida, what did Nina Skye do? Like, what did they do? They put out a great song, put out a fantastic song. And then they never got to be fit like it. I'm almost.
[00:14:44] Speaker B: It's the fickle nature of house music. You know, you make up a dance bop and before you know it, Kylie Minogue decides to come back for the 30th time and make another one, you know?
[00:14:54] Speaker A: God damn.
[00:14:55] Speaker B: That being said, do not. I'm not disrespecting Kylie Minogue. She is also one of my guilty pleasures up there with blues traveler. Lots of Kylie monogamy rotation.
[00:15:04] Speaker A: Yeah, luckily we were.
[00:15:06] Speaker C: It's just.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: It's all house artists. Just like waiting for Kylie Minogue to.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Hibernate for a little bit, goes to sleep, you can finally come out and you just have to pray that derude doesn't decide to reawaken.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Or that daft punk doesn't like, reunite. There's those lulls where you're like. Usually it's like how we have, like this summer, there's going to be the two cicada. The two cicada groups that are going to, like, give their birth. They're on different cycles. Like, one's on a 17 year one's on a 14. They're going to sync up this year and there's going to be like. They're like, yeah, it's not. It's not unsafe. It's not unheard of to say there will be billions of these bugs and you're like, what the fuck?
[00:15:42] Speaker C: Yeah, it's. That's.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: You're mostly riding out the cycles between Daft Punk and Kyla Minogue and house.
[00:15:48] Speaker B: Music, being like, Nina sky just got in there for. I mean, they got theirs. You can't be upset if. If you only get a taste of the top and house music, that's all you're gonna get with powerhouses like Minogue and that funk, you know, that's fair.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: That's very fair. I do modest mouse robot helmets also.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: If they just would have put on some robot helmets, that would have helped, I honestly think. Robot helmets, twin sister robots, that's pretty sick. That's badass.
[00:16:14] Speaker A: That's like, gonna. That would move you pretty far. We should. What?
[00:16:18] Speaker C: We need to.
[00:16:18] Speaker A: We need to find two twin sisters.
[00:16:21] Speaker C: Okay, done.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: They're Nina sky. They're right here.
[00:16:23] Speaker A: You think we just do they already.
[00:16:25] Speaker B: Make house music, Nick. We don't have to find anything. We just gotta get these women to dress like robot. Do you think we're still making music?
[00:16:31] Speaker A: Do you think we could revitalize the career of Nina sky?
[00:16:34] Speaker B: Yes, 100%. I think if they took us on for one week, we could revolutionize the.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: Game as their new managers. Nina Skye, if we see Nina sky, by the way, if we see you out there in helmets where, like, you're. We will. We will be litigious about it.
I just want you to know that if we see you out there in helmets.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: Tmtmtm. This is us.
[00:16:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, we.
[00:16:59] Speaker B: We have trademarked. You're the version of you that we're.
[00:17:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:03] Speaker A: Your likeness. We have your life captured that, and that's gonna be ours now. And you're gonna have to deal with that. Like, that.
[00:17:11] Speaker C: And.
[00:17:11] Speaker A: But we.
[00:17:11] Speaker C: But.
[00:17:12] Speaker A: Or just cut us in.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: Cut us in. We will quickly succumb to money, I think, Nick, this is. We can beat around the bush all the way. We could play around in the space. We got robot girls.
It's float on every time. Now, out of this. Out of this category, it's got to be float on.
[00:17:27] Speaker A: I do.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: I worry that this was a gateway drug for a generation of emos.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: I do. Yeah, I guess I'm trying to. I'm trying to be like, did we. Did we just yuck this up by being two white dudes who got into alternative music, probably. Yeah.
[00:17:43] Speaker B: But I will say, I think. I don't think there was any. There was no song in this category that could beat float on if they went up against. Yeah, of course it loses if it goes up against freaka league. It probably loses if it goes up against, I don't know, naughty girl. It probably loses, you know, fair.
[00:17:58] Speaker C: Fair. This is.
[00:17:59] Speaker A: Hey, that's. That's why we said. That's why we have the bracketologist do it for us. Yeah, we can't. We can't rank these on our own.
[00:18:06] Speaker C: We would.
[00:18:06] Speaker A: We'd waste the whole time figuring out the rankings. So that's why. All right, you tell us so.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: And I know they take. They take hours. And you guys, we submitted this bracket to get done in 2021, maybe, and they just kicked it back to us.
[00:18:21] Speaker C: Right.
[00:18:21] Speaker A: That's why we haven't done. That is the reason why we haven't done a song bracket in so long.
[00:18:28] Speaker B: They've just been arguing about it.
[00:18:29] Speaker A: That's why we. It's not because Nick actively was like, no, no, I won't do them with you again. You pissed me off too much. No, it's because the bragatologist, we were like, hey, 2004 seems like a good one. Let's go do that year. And then they're like, all right, we'll figure it out. Three years later. This is where we're at.
[00:18:44] Speaker C: Exactly. That's what I'm saying.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: It's tough.
[00:18:45] Speaker C: So.
[00:18:46] Speaker A: All right, I'm with you. I'm with you here. We'll move, float on into the final four. That will be the Group D champion, which means we got a final four Friday coming up. But until then, thank you all so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. If you want about Chabois, a few things that you can do, as always, share with a friend, tell a friend, wherever you're listening to this, make sure you hit that. Like that. Follow that. Subscribe and give us those five stars, please.
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[00:19:21] Speaker A: As always, shout outs to Charizard for that introduction. Music. You want to hear more of their stuff. Number two, band camp. Type in Charizard. Replace the vowels with sixes. That is going to be it for us, folks. We got that final four Friday coming up. But until then, I've been Nick Carey and I'm Cody Luna.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: See you on the boat.
