146: "Vogue" vs. "Rhythm Nation"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Strike a pose! Two of the biggest pop divas have a message for the world, but do we unite for Janet or do we move to the music for Madonna? Only one pop diva can be the biggest star of 1990, so let us debate which it is, is it Madonna's "Vogue" or Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.7	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:05.0	This is Song versus Sog.
0:07.1	Lena, I got a question.
0:08.8	Okay.
0:09.4	What are you looking at?
0:13.8	This is Sog versus Sog.
0:15.5	This week we are doing a pop diva legend classic matchup.
0:20.7	We are doing Vogue by Madonna versus Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson.
0:27.7	Versus head like a hole.
0:30.2	What?
0:31.1	By nine inch nails, which also came out in 1989.
0:35.2	I don't, I don't, vote came out in 1990, I think.
0:39.4	Oh, okay.
0:39.9	Well, Rhythm Nation came out at the tail end of 1989, as did Pretty Hate Machine,
0:45.6	which I think is kind of, which I think is kind of weirdly relevant when we're talking about
0:49.4	Rhythm Nation, the song, and I would say kind of the album Rhythm Nation 1814 in general.
0:55.6	That's a strange one.
0:57.7	I would, but I'm working in my head.
1:00.4	I can almost see where you're going with this.
1:03.2	Almost.
1:04.2	I think that there are industrial elements to that record.
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