129: "Feel Good Inc." vs. "Paper Planes" (w/Lady Emily!)

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In the 2000s, despite some resistance, the alt-rock stations finally discovered hip-hop, or at least something resembling it. But which was the superior UK hip-hop inflected alt-rock song, the Gorillaz' "Feel Good Inc." or M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.7	And I'm Alina Morgan.
0:05.0	And all I want to do is bring you song versus song.
0:08.2	We have a shockingly high votes on this week's podcast.
0:15.7	It's a popular one.
0:16.6	We are doing Feel Good Inc.
0:20.0	By the Gorillas. Or is it just Gorillas? It's just gorillas. Versus by the gorillas or is it just gorillas it's just gorillas it's just
0:23.1	just gorillas we have a special guest versus paper planes by m ia and we do have a guest
0:30.5	in the podcast today please introduce yourself hi uh my name is uh lady emily you can just call me Emily, though, from the channel.
0:41.0	From the channel Lady Emily. And I was brought in here because I have an obsessive knowledge
0:49.8	of guerrillas. I'm pretty sure that's why I was brought here. I don't know if either of us have an
0:54.9	obsessive knowledge of MIA. And if we did, we would probably regret it pretty badly. I watched a
1:02.5	documentary. Does that count? I tried. Like, did you watch a documentary about MIA or did you watch a
1:08.1	documentary that MIA recommended? Because that's...
1:11.6	It's one about... Okay, yes, an important distinction, but it's the former. It's one that was made... I mean, we'll get into it. She's one of those people that likes to document.
1:22.9	Which, you know, I have complicated feelings about people who are constantly like, you know, like making YouTube videos will make you crazy eventually, I think.
1:33.3	But if you're like, even from a young child, just constantly documenting yourself, it was a known on both of you.
1:39.4	But if you're constantly documenting your whole life, even though you're Gen X and like there is no YouTube, like if you're just doing that from really young and you never ever stop, like that speaks to a preexisting condition.
1:55.3	A red flag that I immediately recognize as something that I'm not in love with personally.
2:01.7	I mean, all famous people have to be at least a tiny bit insane.
2:06.7	I haven't heard anything terrible about Damon Albarn or Jamie Bueller.
2:11.9	Wait, Ty, what's your excuse?
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