161: "Beautiful Things" vs. "Lose Control" (ft. Kevin Anderson)
Song Vs. Song
Todd Nathanson
4.7 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
They were the biggest songs of 2025 and unfortunately they were from 2024 but they just wouldn't go away, so much so that we had to use our 2025 in review year-end podcast to talk about them! Which overplayed song of the year AND the year before made you do backflips and/or lose control, Benson Boone's "Beautiful Things" or Teddy Swims's "Lose Control"?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson. |
| 0:03.7 | And I'm Lena Morgan. |
| 0:05.6 | And this is our song versus song. |
| 0:09.1 | Last episode of the year. |
| 0:10.9 | Last episode before I thankfully get to go home for Christmas is the last thing I'm doing in 2025. |
| 0:17.9 | And I'm so glad to be spending it with you, Lena. |
| 0:20.5 | This episode, as always, we do our final episode with songs from this year. |
| 0:26.7 | And this year's songs are from last year. |
| 0:29.8 | We are doing Benson Boone's beautiful things versus Teddy Swim's Lose Control. |
| 0:37.8 | It's incredible. |
| 0:38.8 | It's not like they didn't have songs that came out this year. |
| 0:43.0 | But none of them were as big this year as their hits from last year. |
| 0:47.5 | And to help us out, we have a friend of mine, comedian, and most importantly, the guy who gave me the 6-7-6 heaven joke in the last episode I did on YouTube. |
| 0:57.3 | Oh, you used it. |
| 0:58.8 | Okay, good. |
| 1:00.1 | My buddy, Kevin Anderson, welcome back to the show, Kevin. |
| 1:04.0 | Great, great to be back here talking about music I actually fucking hate this time instead of last time where I was actually enjoying the conversation. |
| 1:12.6 | No, as soon as I did this matchup in my head, I was like, I know exactly who needs to be on |
| 1:20.2 | this episode because you were doing nothing but complaining about these two songs. |
| 1:27.7 | I was working, I was working at a lumber yard earlier this year because, you know, it's very easy to get |
| 1:34.2 | jobs that pay a lot of money in this country. |
| 1:37.3 | And that means that we were allowed to listen to one store. |
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