What’s the defining Millennial song?
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
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NPR Music editors Hazel Cills and Sheldon Pearce join host Robin Hilton.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from NPR Music and the NPR Music podcast where you will find new drops of this show. |
| 0:07.5 | New episodes of all songs considered every Tuesday. And of course we've got Alt Latino every Wednesday and close out every week with New Music Friday. |
| 0:16.8 | NPR music is also home to Sheldon Pierce. |
| 0:21.4 | Hello, Robin. |
| 0:22.8 | And Hazel Sills. |
| 0:23.4 | Hey. |
| 0:27.6 | So you all have a very tall order for this episode. |
| 0:38.3 | We are going to attempt to crown a single song for an entire generation, millennials specifically. Did you understand that that's what you were signing up for |
| 0:40.3 | when you agreed to do the show? |
| 0:41.3 | I did, yes. |
| 0:42.3 | The look on your face tells me, are we? |
| 0:44.3 | I am proud to be on the millennial panel |
| 0:48.3 | deciding the song for the whole community. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm imagining Sheldon like pushing his glasses. |
| 0:55.0 | This is really serious work. |
| 0:58.0 | This very important undertaking, the definitive millennial song, we will crown it here. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, this is the kind of question that I love to nerd out on. |
| 1:08.0 | And this probably comes as no surprise to anybody listening, |
| 1:11.3 | but I am not a millennial. I don't really have a horse in this race, but I do love to consider |
| 1:16.2 | questions like this. And this is one that came up recently on a blue sky thread. A writer from |
| 1:22.1 | Nashville, Tyler Huckabee posted this question on Blue Sky. What is the defining millennial song? What song |
| 1:30.4 | captures the millennial experience or sounds like the millennial generation? Is that the best way |
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