41: "Hollaback Girl" vs. "My Humps"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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It's two of the quote-unquote "worst" songs of all time! Which controversial pop-rap earworm of 2005 will reign supreme, "Hollaback Girl" or "My Humps"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathenson.
0:03.7	And I'm Danny Roth.
0:05.2	This is Song versus Song, and we are going to do one that I have been wanting to do for quite a while.
0:09.6	Are you ready, Dan?
0:11.1	No.
0:11.8	Yes, you are.
0:13.4	This week, we are going to do the 2005 showdown of songs people hate, to an extent, I guess.
0:21.4	We are doing Gwen Stefani's hollowback girl versus the black eyed peas, my humps.
0:27.5	Two absolutely legendary, unforgettable songs that everyone loves or hates.
0:34.5	I got a bone to pick with you.
0:36.5	Go ahead.
0:37.6	So you know very well that I don't like the episodes where you take songs I don't like.
0:43.4	Because I don't like, I don't, I'm the opposite of every critic we know.
0:47.8	I don't like not liking things.
0:49.6	It's not fun for me.
0:51.5	I'm not smart enough to be able to elucidate people with some original take about
0:57.3	why thing bad. It's not really, it's not my thing. So what I will say to you is this. You
1:03.3	chose the cruel thing and it was right there. It was, you know, it was, you could have just
1:08.7	gone back in time a decade and done me a solid and
1:12.7	given, giving me something that I like. You decided to do the song where it's, it's, it's, it's
1:19.5	Gwen Stefani being a meme versus Fergie being a stupid girl when what you could have did was go back to 1995 and have
1:33.7	Gwen Stefani do a thing that's a meme and have Shirley Manson be a stupid girl.
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