98: "If It Makes You Happy" vs. "Who Will Save Your Soul" (w/Vita Ayala!)
Song Vs. Song
Todd Nathanson
4.7 • 752 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
1996! A wonderful year to be a woman with a guitar, or to listen to one! As the new crop of female singer-songwriters become the biggest names in music, two of the biggest hit the airwaves with songs concerned about your spiritual well-being! Who has the strongest and best answer to your inner emptiness, Sheryl Crow's "If It Makes You Happy" or Jewel's "Who Will Save Your Soul"?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Todd Nadenson. |
| 0:03.7 | And I'm Lena Morgan. |
| 0:05.1 | This is Song versus Song. It is 2023. It is our first podcast of the new year. I am ready. |
| 0:13.7 | Are you ready, Lena? |
| 0:15.5 | I can tell you just one thing and said I'm not okay. |
| 0:19.8 | Okay. Well, actually, I'm not ready at all. |
| 0:22.7 | That's why for our first podcast after the holidays, I picked what I thought was a real softball. |
| 0:29.1 | We are going to be doing Cheryl Crows, if it makes you happy versus Jules, who will save your soul. |
| 0:38.0 | And we got a special guest. |
| 0:40.1 | Say hi, our special guest. |
| 0:41.8 | Hello, it's Vita. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm back to torture you some more with my horrible opinions. |
| 0:46.7 | This time, though, I think everyone is in alignment, but maybe not for the same reason. |
| 0:51.6 | Certainly two of us spent a lot of time at 4 a.m. |
| 0:55.8 | Before this podcast discussing these two songs and artists. |
| 1:00.5 | Well, I feel left out. |
| 1:02.3 | You should. |
| 1:03.2 | Well, for the record, when I say this is a softball, |
| 1:08.1 | I didn't mean like one is obviously better than the other. |
| 1:12.9 | I mean that we are of a certain age so that talking about two songs from 1996 is going to be right in our wheelhouse. |
| 1:19.1 | That is correct. I had full body flashbacks to laying on my living room floor with my head |
| 1:27.1 | between the speakers of my stereo blasting the Cheryl |
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