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One Song

Stevie Wonder “Superstition”

One Song

Hartbeat

Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Onesong, Comedy, Music

4.9876 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This time on One Song, Diallo and LUXXURY are taking a long hard look at Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” and asking the questions that really matter: Is washing your face and hands a superstition or just good hygiene? What’s a clavinet? And, crucially, what does LUXXURY mean by “Stevie slop”? Album: Talking Book Released: 1972 Artist: Stevie Wonder Genre: Classic Soul Awards: Grammy Award for Best R&B Song, MORE Featured songs: Cybernaut by Tonto's Expanding Head Band, Machine Gun by Commodores, Black Cow by Steely Dan, You Make Loving Fun by Fleetwood Mac

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0:00.0

You're listening to one song, very best podcast.

0:11.0

We want you to listen to all these fun facts

0:21.4

if you want to know

0:26.5

Oh, you don't know that part.

0:28.2

That part's too complicated.

0:29.8

It's in E flat.

0:30.7

I'm not that good of a keyboard.

0:31.7

You know what?

0:32.5

This is going to be one of the best episodes of one song ever

0:35.9

because we are doing it on the fly,

0:38.0

much like the way that Stevie Wonder recorded the seminal album Hawking Book.

0:42.9

This is the one song Slop episode.

0:45.0

I am actor, writer, director, and sometimes DJ Diallo Rooney.

0:48.5

And I'm producer, DJ, and songwriter luxury, the guy who whispers interpolation on TikTok.

1:07.0

Music writer luxury, the guy who whispers interpolation on TikTok. So this is an interesting episode because we're going to be talking about Stevie Wonder. But before we get into the song, there's something about this song and Stevie in general that we've been talking, we've been playing around with, like, how it relates to the show in general, how the selection of the song.

1:17.9

There's something, we just kind of maybe want to kind of explain a little bit about the show and how the song selection plays into it.

1:23.9

Absolutely. When we first started talking about this show, we talked about all the big, big artists and they're, you know, huge catalog songs that we wanted to, you know, talk about. And one of them, you can't do a show about music without doing Stevie Wonder.

1:36.5

iconic. And at that point, we, like, look at, you know, some of the Stevie Wonder songs you had the Stim's for, we were like, oh, you got to do superstition. Yeah. Like, that's a song that's like everywhere, you know, from weddings to like cool movies, you know,

1:49.5

like it's a song that everybody knows.

1:51.3

And it sort of led to this larger discussion of can a perfect, you know, amazing song actually

1:59.7

become a little bit played out.

2:01.2

A little bit played out. To the point where you don't hear it as music anymore.

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