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I invited Friends of the Pod, Rob Harvilla, Shah D'Souza, and Pugatel on to rank the best

pop songs of the 2020s so far. So here it is. I hope you enjoy. All right, so I am here with

a dream team to take on a very, very hard task today of counting down the best pop songs of the decade of the 2020 so far.

With me here are writer and critic, Shad DeSuzza. Shad, welcome back to the show.

Thanks. I think it's my fifth time.

You're in the five-timers club. Yeah, we've been down many roads together, Miley Sires, Charlie X, X, X. We've named best songs of 2023 together. I forget, we've done a lot of things together, but always glad to have you. I'm also here with writer and editor, Pousha Patel. Pusa, welcome to the show. Hi. Hi, good to see you. and from The Ringer and 60 Songs That Explain the 90s, it's Rob Harvilla. Rob, welcome back. How are they going? Not quite five times. Two or three, I think. But that's all right. We'll get there. Also, I should say 60 songs that explain the 2000s now. We have dated criteria.

Pol in the 2000s.

Pujo loves that title.

I get angry texts about the title of the show now from Pugia, like, regularly.

What's wrong with that?

Because it's obnoxious.

It's 60 songs that explain the 90s, colon the 2000.

What's not to like?

It's high school musical, the musical, the TV show.

That's exactly what it is.

It's HM, colon, HM, parentheses, HM.

You got it.

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