162: "sports car" vs. "Fame is a Gun" (w/Andrew Unterberger!)
Song Vs. Song
Todd Nathanson
4.7 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
It's 2026 and we're doing our real 2025 in review, with double the Rae. Which of the two dancing hot girl pop stars is gonna be the one to lead us into the new year, do you prefer Tate McRae's "sports car" or Addison Rae's "Fame is a Gun"?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson. |
| 0:03.6 | And I'm Lena Morgan. |
| 0:05.0 | This is Song versus Song. |
| 0:07.5 | We are back from winter break. |
| 0:10.4 | We are ready to start the year, or at least we are starting the year. |
| 0:15.2 | I don't know if we're ready to start the year. |
| 0:17.1 | But we are back. |
| 0:18.3 | It is Song versus Song, and we are going to start off 2026 with 2025. |
| 0:24.5 | We are doing Tate McCrae's sports car versus Addison Ray's. |
| 0:30.4 | Fame is a gun. |
| 0:32.5 | I think we kind of had to do it because we didn't do a 2025 episode at the end of the year like we did |
| 0:38.0 | like we usually do well we did in a way except we didn't because you were like we're going to do |
| 0:43.4 | it and then it was like two songs from 24 that were one of the two of the biggest songs of 2025 |
| 0:50.0 | but we are doing 2025 this year we're going to do it right we're doing it for our gen z audience i |
| 0:57.0 | assume i have no idea who listens to us yes it's them and the people who are my age who i assume |
| 1:04.2 | saw this matchup and were confused and thought that tape mccray and addison ray were the same |
| 1:08.7 | person we did get a few comments and we're. And we're doing that for a specific reason. We have a guest in the building. Once again, Andrew Wernerberger, close friend, close friend of the pod, close friend in real life. Welcome back. Yeah. Thank you all for having me again. I feel like I'm always the one after the break. I don't know why I get to be like the, I don't know if to call like a season premiere or a midseason premiere or what, but I appreciate it. This is a thing that I did not realize until the other day. And you and I talked about this fact that you were our first guest last year too. Well, that time you all actually invited me on this time, I kind of invited myself, but I appreciate you being willing to do it either time. Yes, yes. You held a gun to our head and it said fame. Yep, that's right. Well, you are our favorite, you are our favorite guest. And whenever we feel rusty coming out of the break, we know who we can rely on to help us through the podcast. |
| 2:02.0 | And you are here because you have a podcast. |
| 2:05.1 | Yes, I have a podcast called The Greatest Pop Stars podcast, which was formed around a series |
| 2:13.6 | that we do at Billboard basically every year. |
| 2:17.1 | We've done it every year since 2021, where we |
| 2:21.2 | count down at the end of the year. We count down the greatest pop stars of the year that was. |
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