Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' vs. SZA's 'Ctrl' | LAST SONG STANDING [E6]

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.9 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

The LSS Boyz continue their journey to crown the Best Album of the 21st Century (so far) by pitting two landmarks in RnB history against each other: Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' vs. SZA's 'Ctrl' . Every episode this season, Cole and Charles each nominate one album they feel should be in contention for the 21st century's best. Each album is discussed individually before the two albums battle head to head, where Cole and Charles argue until they can agree on the better album. The winning album from each episode advances to the season finale Royal Rumble, where the LSS boys will face off one last time until they can finally agree on the Best Album of the 21st Century. New episodes every Tuesday. Hosts: Cole Cuchna & Charles Holmes Producer: Justin Sayles Audio/Video Editing: Kevin Pooler Video Engineer: CT Theme Music: Birocratic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to Last Song Standing. I'm Cole Kushna.
0:07.6	And I'm Charles Holmes. And in this fourth season of Last Song Standing, Cole and I are debating
0:12.3	our way through some of the best albums of the past 25 years in order to crown the greatest
0:17.9	album of the 21st century, aka the last album standing.
0:23.7	Last episode, Mad Villany went against Clipses Hell Have No Fury.
0:28.0	Luckily, mad villainy came out on top.
0:31.0	Oh, whoa.
0:32.6	Mad villainy came out on top after some expert, expert maneuvering from the mad villain himself.
0:39.3	But on today's episode, we've got two more classic albums going to head to head.
0:43.7	But first, Cole, how are we feeling about things?
0:46.3	I'm about to list out the albums that we have.
0:48.7	First episode, Connie's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy came out on top.
0:53.9	Second, Beyonce's Lemonade, followed by Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP,
0:58.6	Daft Punk's Discovery, Mad Villany.
1:02.1	I'm feeling like really good about this list.
1:04.1	Yeah, it's a very balanced list, especially after the last two episodes.
1:07.9	We got electronic represented.
1:09.6	We got kind of the indie hip hop
1:11.0	represented. And then after today's episode, I feel it's going to be even more balanced.
1:16.2	And then the penultimate episode is going to be one for the ages, I think.
1:20.9	Things have gotten device. Have this, has this been our most divisive season in terms of
1:24.7	just like our ability not to actually be able to pick a winner.
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