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All Songs Considered

The Contenders, Vol. 4: The songs we can't stop playing this week

All Songs Considered

NPR

Music

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The latest update to our running list of the year's best songs includes the shredded guitars of girlpuppy, solo material from from TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe and more.

Featured artists and songs:

• Tunde Adebimpe: "Drop," from 'Thee Black Boltz'

• girlpuppy: "Champ," from 'Sweetness'

• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: "Into Your Eyes" from 'GUSH'

• Lonnie Holley: "Protest With Love," from 'Tonky'

• The Weather Station: "Lonely," from 'Humanhood'

• Ólafur Arnalds & Talos: "We Didn't Know We Were Ready" (feat. Niamh Regan & Ye Vagabonds) (single)

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0:00.0

At the Super Bowl halftime show, Kendrick Lamar indeed performed his smash disc track Not Like Us and brought out Samuel L. Jackson, Serena Williams, and Siza.

0:10.1

We're recapping the Super Bowl, including why we saw so many celebrities in commercials this year.

0:16.0

Listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR.

0:20.2

Robin, I've got to ask how you're holding up in the wake of this weekend's big crisis.

0:28.0

Which crisis?

0:29.1

A personal crisis for you.

0:32.1

Yes, it's Monday morning, the morning after the big Super Bowl game.

0:40.1

And if you're like me, a Kansas City Chiefs fan, not good. Not good, Sheldon. That was brutal. Philadelphia absolutely

0:48.5

destroyed Kansas City. And Kansas City was favored to win that game. Yeah. I mean, so many people had just written it off completely.

0:57.5

Yeah, a lot of the momentum seemed to be behind the chiefs on this one,

1:01.9

and boy, did Philadelphia snuff that out of equally.

1:04.2

I will say, and we don't have to talk about the game much,

1:07.5

but I will say when I watched Philadelphia beat Washington, the commanders,

1:12.3

a couple weeks ago, I thought, uh-oh. Yeah. Because Philadelphia looked absolutely

1:18.5

unstoppable. So I'm not that surprised. I'm surprised it was as much of a smackdown as it was.

1:26.0

Well, I guess you could say it wasn't the only beat down that happened on the field that night.

1:32.1

It was a huge night for music.

1:33.3

Kendrick Lamar headlined the halftime show.

1:35.2

And going into the game, there was one big question on every music fan's mind, and that was,

1:42.7

will Travis Kelsey propose to Taylor Swift?

1:47.4

And now we'll never know, because he couldn't do it after losing the game.

1:51.8

You'll never know.

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