Songs that hit you hard

All Songs Considered

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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We asked listeners to tell us about the one song they couldn't stop listening to because of how it made them feel. On this episode we share some of their picks and the stories behind them.

Note: This episode originally aired in Dec. 2024

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0:21.0	Can you believe it has been a year since we did this show last, this time last year?
0:25.9	It's kind of wild to think about that.
0:28.3	It went by so fast for me.
0:29.8	Are you at that point, Maitra, where it's just time is just going faster and faster?
0:35.1	It is.
0:35.9	I very much am like, wait a minute, I thought it was January. Wait a minute. I thought
0:39.7	it was September. What's happening? Yeah. So this is our new annual tradition that we started last year,
0:46.7	our episode about songs that hit hard. We did a call out to listeners, and it turns out there
0:51.3	are lots of songs that, you know, really hit lots of people
0:55.1	really hard. We had a little form they could fill out online if they wanted to use that.
0:59.6	Writing in, voicemails, telling us about a song that absolutely wrecked them one way or the other.
1:06.8	Ugly cried too or just obsessed about. So we're going to share some of those songs and the stories
1:12.5	and the song picks and everything on this episode. We'll get to as many as we can. Let's start with
1:18.6	one of the written comments that we got. So this was a song a lot of people picked, which would be
1:23.3	Sizz's Saturn. Yeah. A single she released back in February. So people have been sitting with this for a few months now.
1:30.2	Yeah.
1:30.5	But one of the listeners who wrote in was Mona from San Antonio.
1:35.1	She says,
1:36.0	"'2020 was a rough year.
1:37.8	I had two great losses and was diagnosed with two chronic illnesses.
1:42.2	This song hit me hard because the lyrics summed up my emotional state of mind.
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