149: "Back to Black" vs. "Someone Like You"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Amy Winehouse and Adele. Two of the greatest vocalists who ever lived who also both happen to be British white girls. And they absolutely tore your guts out with the saddest song in their respective catalogs. So who did it better, Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" or Adele's "Someone Like You"?

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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 Song.
0:08.3	We are back after what seems like forever.
0:11.2	Did we take a break?
0:12.5	Or is it just like the months got weird?
0:14.7	It's so the month of May started on a Thursday.
0:20.1	That's it. Okay. Well, it put us back a Thursday. That's it.
0:21.6	Okay.
0:22.2	Well, it put us back a little bit, but now we are finally ready to do, I think, a matchup that should have been done a long time ago.
0:31.6	We will be doing someone like you by Adele versus Back to Black by Amy Winehouse.
0:39.9	At last, the first Amy versus Adele matchup, something so obvious.
0:44.6	I cannot believe we haven't done it before.
0:46.9	Are you ready?
0:48.3	I am.
0:49.5	You know, I don't have an intro for this one.
0:51.2	So who's your pick?
0:52.9	I'm going to take Amy Winehouse on this one.
0:55.8	Why?
0:57.0	Is it because you just watched that documentary they did of her a few years ago?
1:02.6	Maybe it's just a few years.
1:04.2	You mean a decade ago?
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