I'm so fancy you already know I'm in the best lane from

welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your long fuse of music news and

aesthetic sport. I'm your host Ben Ratliff. You're listening to fan.

Let's get drunk on the mini bar.

Make the phone call.

Fe feel so good getting what I want. Yeah, keep on. You're listening to Fancy by I Gee Azalea, one of the so-called songs of the summer.

I mean, the truth of the matter is you were probably listening to Fancy by Easele before you came to us.

Well, yeah, I mean, this is just, you know, more of the same.

Absolutely. I mean, what you were doing before you turned us on.

When did we become part of the pop machine when did we become co-opted

That's a good question but I think in the next half hour we will assert our difference from the pop machine

Speak for yourself.

Look at it from above.

I want to be in the board.

From a great height.

I don't think you do.

John Caramonica wants to be in the board.

John Caramonica is with us today talking about well it's sort of like the

Loch Ness monster of pop culture the summer song can we just can we just

kill that concept right off the top? Like is that rude to do?

You are proposing that there is no such thing?

Well, I'm proposing that like the endless pieces

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