152: "Old Town Road" vs. "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" (w/Mark Grondin!)

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

America loves hip-hop/country mashups that top the charts for 19 weeks! One was a TikTok fluke that changed the culture, one a legitimate country song from an outsider who rode a Beyonce cosign into Nashville, but which is better, Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" vs. Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.8	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:05.0	This is Song versus Song.
0:08.0	And we have two of the biggest songs of all time today.
0:14.7	We are doing Old Town Road versus Shaboosies, tipsies, parentheses, a bar song?
0:21.7	A bar song, parentheses, tippy?
0:23.0	Other way around.
0:23.6	Crap.
0:24.4	A bar song, parentheses, tipsy.
0:27.7	Happy pride, everybody.
0:30.5	Well, you know, last time we didn't have a pridey episode.
0:36.7	This one, we were kind of like halfway there. We have
0:38.9	one gay person, one very gay person at that. It's still, I don't know. Oh, you meant you
0:45.0	know, you met little Nazak. So that was like, I was like, I, what? No, you're always here.
0:52.7	That's rude.
0:58.6	And we have a third person in the podcast today.
1:04.9	Once again, please welcome Spectrum Pulse, aka Mark Gronden, or Mark Gronden, aka Spectrum Pulse.
1:06.3	Either way it works.
1:07.1	Hi, folks.
1:08.5	My name is Mark, the host Spectrum Pulse.
1:11.0	I talk about music, movies, art, and culture.
1:18.8	I got to be honest, I'm very happy to be called in for this one because, boy, do I have opinions.
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