'Levitating' by Dua Lipa (w/ Connor Ratliff)

Punch Up The Jam

Headgum

Music, Comedy, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

It's the hit of the century! It sounds like it's from the 1980s and the 2080s at the same time! Everyone and their pet alien loves this song, and that's why, to punch it up, we knew we had to enlist the help of Connor Ratliff, a legend in the podcastiverse for his dedication to dissecting utter minutiae. And Connor did not disappoint, at one point obsessing over the syllables in a single measure to the point that Evan yelled "YOU HAVE GASLIT YOURSELF!" Our intrepid astronauts veer across the Milky Way and discover connections from Dua Lipa's Levitating to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Jon Ossoff, and beer-brewing Trappist monks.

Guest: Connor Ratliff

Walk-in music: 'I Drink Beer' by Dan Reeder; 'Got To Give It Up' by Marvin Gaye; 'Pumped Up Kicks' by Foster The People.

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0:00.0	This is a headgema-rigical.
0:06.0	It's a little bit, it's sort of like, you know, after Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
0:11.0	you have the Great Glass Elevator.
0:13.0	And it's sort of like you think you've had all the adventures you're going to have with the Chocolate Factory.
0:19.0	But then you have this Great Glass Elevator just bursts right through and goes into outer space.
0:24.0	And I feel like because this is a song that literally already is like in the stratosphere,
0:30.0	it's where we're blasting off into the Great Unknown.
0:33.0	Who knows what's possible.
0:35.0	Maybe I think it's in the spirit of the song to like, let's take it even higher.
0:41.0	And it's also like the Great Glass Elevator because it's love-atating.
0:44.0	It's love-atating.
0:45.0	We're leaving the confines of the Chocolate Factory with this one.
0:49.0	We're leaving the confines of half-faked classic rock songs from the 70s
0:55.0	that could use a little updating.
0:57.0	And we're going off into the outer space realms of pop songs that have been crafted so finally.
1:05.0	Every second is accounted for in a hit like this.
1:09.0	That you think that there's no room to improve.
1:11.0	But a guiding principle of this show is that no song is unpunschable.
1:14.0	No song cannot be punched.
1:16.0	Let's punch it.
1:19.0	Punch from the gym.
1:21.0	Punch it up.
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