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Hosts of the podcast, Give It a Chance, Casey Jost and Kevin Deviner here.

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This is why we love your podcast.

It's about music.

A lot of the music it's about is music we detest.

And so whose idea was it remind us from last time you were here? Where does this come from and why are you doing this? It was my idea and I wanted to put some positive into the world. So I would take these songs that people, you know, hate on paper and then give it a chance, right? We need some positivity. We need to have an open mind in this world. So we're like, let's listen to some of these songs and then give it a chance.

Yeah, I think also part of it that balances it

is that they're like hugely successful songs

that are just kind of also, I don't know,

cheesy or beaten to death or whatever.

And so we're trying to find like another thing in them.

And it happens.

Like recently we put on achy-breaky heart, which is like, we're not like country guys, but we like the roots of country. And this is like very pop country in like early 90s. And I thought I was going to hate it. And we ended up being like, finding so much positive in it. And it's really fun. Well, you know, such as life. You know, you can find a painting. You can find a play or a TV show that you just don't get. A morning radio show. Or a morning movie example. But if you, like, sit with it for a second and, like, think it through. Like, where were they coming from when they've created this art? Yep. Okay. It has meaning. it has life now. So this is what you're doing. Okay, I think last time you guys were here, we used a great example because it's a big, hated song in our show, Barbie Girl. That's the best song ever. Yeah. I love turd. See, it's subjective. Difference of opinion. That's one of my favorite songs ever. Well, something we do like to do is we call it an anti-chancey And that means like we allow ourselves to talk a little smack about it And find things we don't like about it And so in that genre I don't know what it was It was all these like Eastern European guys making it And they'd put themselves on the tracks So instead of just having like a beautiful singer, they'd also be like, hello Barbie, let's go party. It's like they all, I talk, talk. I talk to you. Like they all had that one guy that was like low voice producer that was like, I'm also going to sing on this. They have to justify their existence. I appreciate that. Totally. See, you find the art form is truly, truly at an A plus at that point. I love when creators have to insert themselves into the project. I think it's so funny. Yeah. Mustard on a beat. Yeah. Exactly. Every single time. I actually Barbie girl, I mean, that era was probably the original, like, producer tag.

It was like the first people to do that. So this is what the podcast is all about. Again, Casey Joost and Kevin Devine, give it a chance. Second season, boom. It's now time for second season. You lasted to an entire first season. Unreal. We just kept going, too. We were like, what number should we, like, kind of stop at? and we just were having so much fun making these episodes that we're like all right let's let's stop here and then do a new season and think about what kind of songs we want and we have some really great songs coming up for season two i mentioned achy breaky heart yeah we've got a lot and we like to do different genres so we'll do some dance or pop we'll'll do some metal, we'll do some country.

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