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Song Vs. Song

164: "Grace Kelly" vs. "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7781 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Let us pick the best neo-glam rock song of the mid-00s! Who shall win, the faux-Queen belting of Mika's "Grace Kelly" or the Elton John-approved disco of the Scissor Sisters' "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'"?


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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Todd Natheson.

0:03.7

And I'm Lena Morgan.

0:05.1

And this is Song versus Song, the podcast where we take two vaguely related songs and argue about which one is better.

0:13.2

This week, we are doing Mika's Grace Kelly versus the Scissor Sisters. I don't feel like dancing. This is one of Lena's.

0:24.6

I mean, it is in a way. It is in a sense that, yes, you cheated. You cheated me out of the actual

0:33.1

challenge. You wanted, I can't decide. I called an audible and I changed it to I don't feel like dancing, but I still consider this one of yours because I wouldn't have not ever put these two artists together for a, I would not have thought of either of them for a matchup because I unfortunately am too straight. It is a massive drawback, I think.

0:54.6

You know, it's so funny that you say these things, just because, like, there was a time, Todd.

1:01.5

Or I, too, was a straight man.

1:06.8

And now I am a straight woman, apparently, which is very strange.

1:11.8

It's been an odd journey from there to here.

1:15.5

You know, I just, I just wanted to stay.

1:18.3

I want it to be in the mainstream.

1:22.2

And very interestingly, I think the correlation there is that these artists also were kind of in the mainstream.

1:32.3

You know, I considered these, like, I'm in the, I'm in the know because, like, I'm an indie hipster person, or at least I was around, you know, 2006, 2007.

1:43.7

So, like, me knowing these artists, like, made me really cool.

1:47.8

And for the record, by these artists, I mean, one.

1:49.9

I did not have a clue who Mika was until much later.

1:54.0

Well, you, I mean...

1:55.0

I knew the Sizzar Sisters.

1:56.4

Well, Mika does, like, hosting duties for Eurovision.

2:00.5

Isn't that a thing that he does?

2:02.3

Yeah. Yeah. I was really shocked to find out that both these songs went to number one overseas.

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