144: "Billie Jean" vs. "When Doves Cry"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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THE EPIC MATCHUP. THE KING OF POP, vs. THE PURPLE ONE. Only one can be the reigning royalty, the titan of pop music of all time. So we are finally hashing it out for ever, WHO'S BAD, Michael Jackson or Prince, and whose biggest hit will reign supreme over the entirety of music, "Billie Jean" or "When Doves Cry"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nadenson.
0:03.7	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:05.0	And this is Song versus Song.
0:07.4	And we are finally doing the matchup that I have been avoiding for, what, five years now.
0:13.8	How long we've been doing this?
0:14.5	Six, seven.
0:15.2	We're coming up on seven.
0:17.3	Right.
0:17.9	Well, seven years.
0:19.7	And we have not done one of the most obvious matchups that you could think of when you know the premise of this show.
0:28.0	We are doing Billy Jean by Michael Jackson versus When Doves Cry by Prince.
0:36.2	It has taken us seven years to do a Prince episode or a Michael episode for reasons that should be obvious and will probably come up.
0:48.3	Yeah, I guess.
0:50.5	Now, technically, I think we should state at the top that despite the fact that we have never selected Prince.
0:57.2	We have done a Prince episode.
0:58.6	Well, we didn't really do a Prince episode so much as he won an episode.
1:02.7	Oh, we did a bonus.
1:03.5	We did a bonus episode also because we covered Purple Rain, but also the song Purple Rain was the winner of Best Rain song.
1:12.3	Oh, that's right.
1:13.5	That's right.
1:14.3	I was thinking of the time you guys made us watch Purple Rain, the mega blockbuster that launched Prince's amazing film career.
1:24.5	It only goes downhill from there.
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