45: "Stay (I Missed You)" vs. "Torn"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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It wouldn't be the '90s without some gently earnest female pop-rock! Whose wistful breakup ballad ruled the decade, Lisa Loeb's "Stay (I Missed You)" or Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:03.0	And I'm Danny Rob.
0:05.0	And this is Song versus Song.
0:07.0	This week we got a big 90s matchup here.
0:11.0	The Battle of the Gently Ernest Female Breakup Songs, I guess.
0:16.0	We are doing Torn by Natalie and Brulea versus Stay versus stay parentheses I missed you by Lisa Loeb.
0:23.7	So basically it's the battle of the pixie cut versus the cat's eye glasses.
0:28.0	It's my freshman year of high school versus my senior year of high school.
0:33.0	Oh, these are all well before my time.
0:35.0	I know.
0:36.0	So what's your pick?
0:37.2	Pixie cut or cat's eye glasses? Pixie Cutter, Cat's Eye Glasses.
0:39.9	I have a definitive answer for this, and we'll get in as we go, I guess, but it's 100%
0:44.9	cat's eye glasses for me. Wait, are we, are you, are you, do you mean as like a symbol,
0:49.2	symbol for the song you picked or just as a fashion statement. Wait, how did you mean it?
0:54.6	I don't know.
0:56.4	I've tried to wear cats eye glasses and I don't look very good in them.
1:00.3	I don't have the face shape for it.
1:01.9	My face is very narrow.
1:04.2	I have a pinhead.
1:05.8	This is great information for people to know.
1:08.2	You're listening and now you've got this great image in your head of me saying one of us, one of us.
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