76: "Everywhere" vs. "A Thousand Miles"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Before Taylor, before Lorde, before Billie, there were two teenage girls who wrote pretty songs that captured our hearts. But whose breakout turn-of-the-millennium hit was the better song, Michelle Branch's "Everywhere" or Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Tonnathanson.
0:03.5	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:05.0	This is Song versus Song.
0:07.2	And this week, well, hold on, you pick this one.
0:10.4	Why don't you introduce this one?
0:13.0	Sure.
0:13.7	So last episode, previously on Song versus Song, you wanted to do two songs with sort of white and white adjacent people
0:22.8	rapping quickly. Yes. So we did third eye blind versus bare naked ladies,
0:29.5	semi-charmed life versus one week. And during that time, I discovered that Stephen Jenkins
0:34.5	had dated some people, one of whom was a woman 16 fucking years younger than him, that being Vanessa Carlton.
0:44.1	And I was like, holy shit, Vanessa Carlton, haven't thought of that name in a minute.
0:49.1	And then I realized, oh, I would love to do, I started going, I got derailed, right?
0:53.3	I stopped researching the episode that I was supposed to be researching and started listening to Vanessa Carlton.
0:58.5	And I was like, we have to do a song, but we have to do a song versus a song with her.
1:01.7	Has to happen.
1:02.8	And that became extremely obvious.
1:04.2	Like if you're going to do that, the person to pit her up against is Michelle Branch.
1:07.2	So here we are. We are doing Vanessa Carlton's A Thousand Miles versus Everywhere by
1:12.1	Michelle Branch. We had some disagreement about whether or not everywhere would be the song for
1:17.5	Michelle Branch, but that was her first hit. A Thousand Miles was Vanessa Carlton's first hit. So it
1:23.6	seemed to me the natural pairing. And also as of this point, if you look on Spotify, if you look on YouTube,
1:29.9	everywhere is the song that historically now, the long arm of history is the one that people listen to the most.
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