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It's Been a Minute

Did That Really Happen This Year?

It's Been a Minute

NPR

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.68.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We take a look back on the year in news and pop culture... in quotes. For this special episode of It's Been a Minute, Sam is joined by NPR All Things Considered hosts Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro to play a deluxe version of our favorite game, Who Said That.

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0:00.0

I have been watching all of those 2021 Spotify Raps

0:04.1

that I've been getting to my friends have been getting

0:05.9

and a weird thing this year that they do

0:08.2

is they take all the music that you've listened to this past year

0:10.9

and give you like a musical aura,

0:12.6

like an emotional energy

0:13.8

and they give you like two words

0:14.9

for the emotional state of your music listening.

0:17.0

You know that?

0:18.2

And it was like, you're angsty and you're this.

0:20.0

Like if you had to do a Spotify Rapt emotional aura

0:24.2

for the year 2021,

0:26.6

what would the two or three emotions be?

0:29.0

Gosh, I mean, I'm thinking it's like agony and ecstasy

0:32.6

because this was the year that we thought the vaccine

0:34.9

was gonna promise deliverance

0:36.4

and then there was Delta and Omacron.

0:38.2

It's like we thought we'd be able to travel

0:39.8

and see loved ones and then we kind of did

0:41.8

but then new waves, it was a whiplash a year.

0:44.7

I get that, Otty.

0:46.2

You know that gif of the actor Nathan Filion

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