Hey my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I know we've talked about this before but I got this habit

where I make a playlist every year that is named that given year.

2020 playlist and I populate it with music that I discovered and liked that year and it sort of becomes the soundtrack of that year and those songs become wedded to memories from that year.

It's very intentional. It's an attempt to reproduce what happened

when we were all younger and we all sort of ran in the same circles and had shared

stories and before we all got weirdly compartmentalized into our little subcultures and we all at least like we knew some of the same songs and so that song was like,

ah, it's the summer of 97, I remember that one.

So 2018, maybe 2019, Spotify decides to serve up to me a song by a girl I've never heard of, named

Ava Max.

I'm like, okay, sometimes you're right, Spotify, let's give it a listen. And immediately I'm like, oh, good job Spotify. This is the kind of like soaring girl vocal pop that I like and yeah, it's a little predictable because most pop is right now, but that's fun.

I'm entertained.

The song's called Sweet But Psycho.

I don't know what that means.

Like, probably just singing about a girl who's kind of got two sides to her,

what I think I just don't even care, whatever, it's a pop song.

And it evoked some of the retro elements that I liked about the Carly Ray Jepsen pop of the two thousand teens and Lady Gaga in her heyday and

Heck Madonna in her heyday and yeah like I know we all have the same opinions on media and everything else and some people like the different things is offensive and they just listen to whatever you're into it's cool

whatever we don't have to agree on any of these things but I'm a sucker for pop and I like the song. I forget about it.

A little bit of time goes by and I heard something else.

It's like, oh, I've heard that name before.

There was some song that she did that I liked.

I went back and I found it on the interwebs.

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