79: "Roar vs. "Brave"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The year is 2013, and a plucky little songwriter named Sara Bareilles has written a warm little empowerment anthem called "Brave." And then a few months later a mega-pop star named Katy Perry has released her next big blockbuster single, "Roar." And they sound exactly the same. Which one is the better single? Are there any differences at all? And is either of them any good? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:04.0	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:05.0	This is song versus song.
0:06.9	Lena, are you feeling empowered, confident?
0:10.7	It's like it's 2013 all over again.
0:14.0	Woo!
0:16.0	Yes.
0:17.0	And just like last week when we did the best songs of 2013 or around that year, we are again doing the best songs of 2013.
0:28.2	Uh-huh.
0:29.3	We are doing Katie Perry's Roar versus Sarah Borrellas's Brave.
0:37.1	Songs you love and you are absolutely looking forward to doing this episode.
0:41.3	You know what I love the most, Todd?
0:44.7	I think my favorite part is that we'd had this great guest on last episode, great songs we were talking about, songs that, you know, no better who won or lost,
0:57.4	everybody was a winner.
0:59.9	Thought, man, we built up all this goodwill,
1:02.3	got lots of votes, lots of things people were talking about.
1:05.4	And now we've probably halved the audience,
1:07.7	halved the votes, and halved the money that we'll have for the rest of our lives
1:11.8	because you've begged these two fucking stinkers. So thanks.
1:16.3	Everyone loves these songs. They were very popular.
1:19.2	Oh, okay. You know I don't like talking about songs I don't like. You know this is my least
1:24.5	favorite thing to do. I love talking about songs I don't like.
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