The music of 'Sinners,' hyper-pop and more: The Contenders, Vol. 9

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We update our running list of the year's best songs with a staggering cut from the new 'Sinners' film, hyperpop from Jane Remover, the return of Foxwarren and more.

Featured artists and songs:
1. Miles Caton: "I Lied to You," from 'Sinners'
2. Foxwarren: "Yvonne," from '2'
3. Jane Remover: "Dancing with your eyes closed," from 'Revengeseekerz'
4. Mal Blum: "I'm So Bored," from 'The Villain'
5. Men I Trust: "The Landkeeper," from 'Equus Asinus'

All Songs Considered 25th anniversary segment: Our number one songs from 2010

Weekly reset: Dinner and dance performance, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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0:00.0	This message comes from Song Exploder, a podcast where artists talk about the making and meaning of one of their songs, taking you layer by layer through the instruments and sounds in the recording.
0:10.9	Find Song Exploder wherever you listen to podcasts. It'll change the way you listen to music.
0:16.4	Sheldon Pierce, can we just get right to the big question that I think is on everyone's mind?
0:20.4	Let's get to it.
0:21.8	Why are there so many horror movies out right now?
0:24.6	Have you seen this?
0:25.7	It's a great question.
0:27.2	They're popping.
0:28.2	Normally, you would have thought of them as a sort of Halloween tradition.
0:31.3	Right.
0:31.8	You settle into the darkness of fall, daylight savings time.
0:35.4	Exactly.
0:35.8	And then, boom, you get a bunch of horror movies.
0:38.5	Now we're seeing...
0:40.0	You've got Woman in the Yard, which the trailer for that, I know because a lot of these
0:45.6	trailers were showing during the NCAA tournament and I was watching them with my kids.
0:49.9	So all I know is their screams and them running from the room every time all these trailers
0:54.6	would come on or putting, you know, their hands over their eyes.
0:57.2	Got ugly step sister, something called it feeds, the movie Sinners.
1:02.0	There's a new Megan movie coming.
1:04.0	Did you know there's a horror movie out now called Robin?
1:07.1	I didn't.
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