Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
Poolside Pop Playlist (with DJ John Michael)
107 Plays5 days ago
What do Kylie Minogue, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Carly Rae Jepsen, Katy Perry, Jewel, Hanson, Meredith Brooks, Tyrese, George Michael, Alphabeat, Deborah Cox, Gina G, Cher, Backstreet Boys and Stacie Orrico have in common!? They are all a part of our POOLSIDE POP PLAYLIST! As we start nearing the end of summer, John Michael and I discuss some of our favorite songs to play in the summertime. From tea dance classics to 90's pop nostalgia to Y2K R&B deep cuts, we cover it all.
Recommended
Transcript
Is There a Song of the Summer This Year?
00:00:08
Speaker
Do you think that we have a Song of the Summer this year? I don't. And it's been a big discussion at work because we've been dealing with Songs of the Summer sort of content. Yeah. And it's been very interesting. So like what we ended up doing was pulling the audience. Well, we did ah we did classes based on Songs of the Summer of all time.
00:00:25
Speaker
Yeah. And so it was just sort of like curious to hear what everybody was saying. And it was somewhere obviously the very sort of on the nose that were like Calvin Harris summer. And I'm like, that is actually a song I don't want to hear at any season. I like no shade to Calvin Harris. It's just too much.
00:00:39
Speaker
No shade, but also for me, it does not give me summer. No. I understand that it's about summer. And i understand, like, I i um completely get the association. But I do not listen to that song and think, oh, summertime. Right.
Peloton's Surprising Summer Song Choices
00:00:52
Speaker
The other thing that i'm that constantly comes up in Peloton world, which is so curious to me, and I don't, I just, I guess I underestimated how much people really, how what their strong feelings are for this song, is I Have the Tiger by Survivor.
00:01:09
Speaker
I just, like I'm alarmed. That's a song of the summer for people? People wrote that in songs of the summer, yes. And I'm like, okay, all right. But it it comes up so many times when we talk about music. And I'm like, I get it was a huge song, like a big hit, like an iconic whatever. But still, people still feel that strongly about that song. that it always kind In the 10 years that I've worked at Peloton, it has constantly come up.
00:01:32
Speaker
That's wild to me. Maybe it's because I feel like that's like such a no shade to anyone, to any fitness instructor out there, but that is such a on-the-nose song to put on your workout playlist. Right, right.
00:01:45
Speaker
you know So maybe that's why. but like I guess, but but I was surprised to hear like members like suggesting it. So it was like, you know we sort of made like a top 10 countdown based on what people had said. This is okay. This is me. This is my snarky side of me.
00:01:58
Speaker
and If any any person suggested that as a song to put on a playlist, immediately my mind thinks, basic bitch. I mean, but it's but that's why i think that's why it surprises me. like i don't I get like picking pop songs or songs that everybody knows. like I get the despacito of it all, like but I don't.
00:02:16
Speaker
I don't know. Just that song in specific is just very strange to me for all of this. But I'm like, all right, whatever. my friend eon just My friend Aaron just me. What are your thoughts on Veronica Electronica?
00:02:27
Speaker
You'll have to listen to this episode. You'll have to listen to the episode, Aaron. You'll have to listen. And it's so funny because I was doing this last night too with ah some DJs that I know on Instagram. I was deja DMing them. Because some of them posted about it. And I'm like, so we're all in agreement, right?
00:02:40
Speaker
Right. Yeah. And pretty much everybody's on the same page. No, for sure. Yeah. Okay. So I, sit speaking of summer songs, I would love to like discuss what songs to you, like are your summer songs that you go to, that you kind of gravitate to. Because I have a whole playlist dedicated to songs.
Songs Evoking Summer Memories
00:02:59
Speaker
Yeah. That to me either came out in the summertime or or um I just associate with summer because of whatever memory that I have with that song playing at that time.
00:03:11
Speaker
Right. I have to really, really think about it because I don't... In general to me, like summer music when I think of it is disco because I think my brain goes T dance.
00:03:23
Speaker
Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably because I've been DJing for so long now that that's just when I think of summer and I think of outside, I'm like, okay, I'm like, so I want something that's light or something that's breezy, that feels good, that sort of like bops around.
00:03:34
Speaker
like i'm I'm fine with pop, but I think that most of my stuff is like more disco-y. like and ah Some of it's really like um on the nose, but I have a remix of Bill Withers' Lovely Day.
00:03:46
Speaker
It's so nice, and it's just so beautiful. so It's like that type of tone. I like that. like To me, like, well, like i said, the Calvin Harris summer, like, that doesn't really give me summer either. That just gives me festival.
00:03:57
Speaker
and Which I guess happened in the summer in your memories, whatever, but... Yeah, I don't know. I'm not... I don't really... What are yours? And then I feel like we'll see. I'll go on for me, i think...
00:04:09
Speaker
One of the ultimate summer songs for me that will always make me immediately think of my childhood that just immediately when the weather gets warm, I like want to start listening to the song is Always Be My Baby by Mariah Carey. Yes, I get that.
00:04:23
Speaker
That song to me is, and I think that the music video helps me get there because it's like this like day camp, you know, video or whatever. It's like those two teenagers, like you know, sneaking out and kissing underwater and blah, blah, blah. um But that song, that song has a very strong grip in my nostalgia.
00:04:43
Speaker
um i just remember listening to it for the first time at my aunt's house. My cousin had the cassette tape of of daydream and, And I remember that song, that song and fantasy, both of them are big summer songs for me. But I remember always my baby specifically being like that song.
00:04:59
Speaker
if you It was probably dream lover for me from Mariah. Like that would be a summer. Yeah. I feel that as a summer song. i for sure for sure yeah this so this playlist is really fun because like it it kind of goes all over the place um there i put cut to the feeling by carly ray jepson on there absolutely summer song um two other summer songs from her that i have on here actually there's several carly ray jepson songs on here but um turn me up and wrong feels so right both from kiss um which i think in general we do not talk about carly way jepson's kiss album enough i don't think we talk about her enough we don't talk about her enough but her kiss album specifically people always go to emotion which side note really quick cannot believe it's been i when i saw that it was 10 years i was like you've got to be joking me
00:05:51
Speaker
Like that song was like no that song The album just came out right right Like come on That's crazy to me yeah um But Kiss does not get The recognition that it deserves But then let's see what else is on here Wannabe by the Spice Girls Yes see but like I would put like Spinning Around by Kylie on there sp is Yep, Spinning Around by Kylie is on here.
00:06:14
Speaker
um Let's see. Love Fool by The Cardigans. Yes. That would also prompt me to put on Breathless by The Coors. Ooh, okay, that's not on here.
00:06:26
Speaker
Okay, here's a fun one. this ah This song makes me feel like I am in Dawson's Creek. ah But it's not Paula Cole. I feel like I'm a Dawson's Creek or like in some sort of like teen rom-com. One Tree Hill.
00:06:42
Speaker
Right. in One Tree Hill. um It's the song Turn the Clock Around by Mandy Moore. Yes. Like I'm obsessed.
00:06:54
Speaker
so i I mean, she's another one we don't talk about enough. she Mandy, come on the pod. We would love to. Oh, my God. I have so many questions. I have so many questions that I need to know everything about working with Emilio Estefan on that album. um Here's another. Okay. Here's I'm going to reserve actually one of these songs for my songs we don't talk about enough. But um one is I Like Them Girls by Tyrese.
00:07:19
Speaker
i feel like I feel like I might actually have a single of that somewhere. I like them girls vi between the sheets. like Again, with that guitar that I was talking about in the early 2000s. I don't think that song was a hit by any stretch, but I remember it debuting on TRL. I remember them playing it on MTV. and i was That song is just like breezy vibe.
00:07:41
Speaker
i don't know. I'm obsessed with that song. What... i what Do I love more than girls? I mean, Tyrese. ah Right. Exactly. Who?
00:07:52
Speaker
me tell you what. Let me tell you what. I'll be a girl for Tyrese. I mean, whatever. You give me a wig in the right lighting. Let me tell you what. Like, Tyrese. Here's one that I mentioned. um Because, again, speaking of like Madonna stands, so like accounts on Twitter and whatnot. One of them was asking, like, what are your Madonna summer songs?
00:08:12
Speaker
Now. Waterline. oh that's a good one. Yeah. yeah For me, this one came out on an album that came out in the fall, but I got this album and didn't ah get introduced to this album until my, my I think it was my thirteenth year birthday.
00:08:31
Speaker
um My birthday's in June. And so I got a bunch of Madonna CDs from my dad. And one of them was Bedtime Stories. So the song Don't Stop. Yes. It's so good. It's such a good song. That like new Jack Swing vibe. um It's so groovy. I mean, it's such a just a very light song that's like.
00:08:50
Speaker
Get up on the dance floor. Everything is grooving. It's very much like Spice Girls type production for me. Very much. yeah but One of the most pop songs maybe Madonna has ever put out in her as she starts getting into her latter part of her career. Oh, for sure.
00:09:08
Speaker
In terms of just like, like you know, and maybe other than music. Right, right, right. um Yeah, just like a silly, i'm just going to dance type of song. I mean, we've talked about it. We talked about the song before, but George Michael's Outside.
00:09:22
Speaker
Oh, yes. That's a summer song for me. Absolutely.
Nostalgic Music and Emotional Connections
00:09:27
Speaker
Wish I could go that low. Maybe I can now with this like horse voice. Hold on. I think I'm done with it so far. No.
00:09:35
Speaker
We're getting there. We're getting there. I remember for the longest time I couldn't get that low. Right, right. I was like, I think I'm starting to summer.
00:09:47
Speaker
Oh, God. um What else is on here? Kylie's Get Out of My Way. Has to be. I mean, it's pretty like almost her entire discography, really. Right. Yeah. It's kind of crazy to me. A really random one, but I don't know why. I just think I think because I associate it with being driven around as a child in the backseat of my parents' car. But Maybe Baby by Amy Grant.
00:10:07
Speaker
fascinating, fascinating. You want to know what you want to know what here's, what's weird. And this is just like, so interesting about how, when people are introduced music, right? i for whatever reason, have an association with that song in the winter. So that's one of my winter songs. That's so crazy.
00:10:23
Speaker
Isn't that weird? oh my God. Yeah. No, that's, that's always, i have like a visual, like it being in the car with like the sun shining and like just driving around Staten Island as a kid. That's cute. I can totally see that, though. Oh, that's fun. Yeah.
00:10:37
Speaker
I love that. well For whatever reason, I don't know if it was, i think maybe it was something similar to where were like we heard that song, but it was playing in the wintertime, and just like, that's where. Totally.
00:10:49
Speaker
And I love that album, though. Like, that whole album, Heart in Motion. i There was a bunch of good songs on there I loved. So good. So good. Really capturing ah Christian America by my throat. um Another song.
00:11:02
Speaker
This is such a great song. I think this is one of my songs we didn't talk about enough ah before, but it's Ed Sheeran's Put It All On Me with Ella Mai. oh Oh. That song to me is what a sunset sounds like.
00:11:13
Speaker
Work. In the summertime. um It came out in 2019 during the summer. um it was also, yeah. So I love that one. Rita Ora Anywhere.
00:11:24
Speaker
I love that song. I love that song. And it literally sounds like a vacation. I'm going to also go down the Rita Ora route and say her song with Sagala. You, you, It's so good.
00:11:35
Speaker
I thought I told you that I wanted you for me. Written by Charlie XCX. yeah And I feel like a lot of Sagala songs ah lend themselves to Summer. they' Oh, for sure. They have that tropical leaning house sound. Right. She's got a type.
00:11:49
Speaker
Yeah. oh i Totally has a type. But the one, what is the Sagala one that I love is with M&EK Radio. Oh, I don't know that one. Oh, my God. And it takes a line from, a musical line from um the Backstreet Boys, As Long As You Want Me.
00:12:04
Speaker
Oh my God, really? Oh God, it's so good. It's the whole, yeah I know loneliness has always been to a friend of mine. and din and and n and and ah Like that's part of the verses that MNEK uses.
00:12:15
Speaker
Oh my God, I love that. oh you will love this song. You have to hear I'm oh i cannot wait to hear it. So peek behind the curtain, everyone. So we we had said that we were going to record at 11 a.m. today. It's a Saturday. And I lost track of time. We both lost track of time.
00:12:28
Speaker
And I'm going to fully admit right now that my losing track of time was watching someone's fan-recorded version of their new Sphere show. Yes. The Back Two Boys. So i that's I was just like, doo-doo-doo, just like watching it. Right. And I just like, wow. And then I looked at the time and I fuck, it's 1130. No, I can't wait to listen to that. Another Sagala song that made my playlist is ah What You Waiting For with Kylie Minogue. Yes.
00:12:53
Speaker
Which is an interesting... I can't 100% confirm this, but this song came out around the same time that she released her Golden Album, which is her country-tinged dance album.
00:13:04
Speaker
um But I remember when she was recording that album and making... it was announced that she was making an album. um I remember reports ah saying that the first single was going to be produced by Sagala.
00:13:15
Speaker
Yeah. And which ended up not being true. But I'm thinking that this was that song. I would think so. And so i'm i'm I thought that was really interesting. I was like, oh, I'm glad.
Kylie Minogue's Music Evolution
00:13:24
Speaker
One, I'm glad it found a home on Sagala's album.
00:13:26
Speaker
um But I was like, what a different trajectory, because this is obviously very different from the country route. Oh, yeah. Going. And so, yeah, I would have loved to have heard what that album would have sounded like if it didn't go down the country route, because there was a few songs that made the cut that originally had different production. Right.
00:13:45
Speaker
And another song recorded for that album was New York City, which ended up making the greatest hits that she released. Yeah. All these girls get into their country bag. Right. I don't know if i need it.
00:13:55
Speaker
I don't. I mean, I think some some succeed more than others, but it's it's an interesting... i don't know why, how they all sort of reach that point in their career. They're just like, you know what? Maybe this. And I'm like, all right, and that's cool.
00:14:08
Speaker
I mean, it's as successful as a genre if you do it no well. No, totally. And so I i get it I just don't want it. Yeah. if you Also, if you have not heard, um if you do you know the song Supernature by Saronne?
00:14:20
Speaker
It was a very old disco song. No. it's a disco song from the 70s. Very, very big hit. He's a French producer. He's done a few versions of it with newer artists on it. The one that I really loved was he did a cover of it with Beth Ditto from The shoe from the the Gossip.
00:14:36
Speaker
Yeah. um And then there was a version of it. I think it was The Shoes with the Name of the Remixers. I don't know. Anyway, but that was really, really good. Anyway, there's a new version that Purple Disco Machine did with him with vocal from Christine and the Queens.
00:14:48
Speaker
Do you know them? Ooh, yes. Yes. I love it. And it is very, very summer. Love that. I can't wait to hear this. Very good. Speaking of Christine and the Queens, another one of my summer songs is Charlie XCX's Gone with Christine and the Queens. Yes.
00:15:03
Speaker
That song... It might be my favorite Charlie XCX song. Oh. Yeah, ever. for i it The production is incredible. I love how the song kind of changes after the second verse. That like that part was like, key keep, keep, keep. It's such a great song with the two of them together. The video is excellent.
00:15:26
Speaker
And there's something really interesting to me about the production of the song that being almost kind of like this industrial sound in a way yet the melody is so pop right right and it kind of harkens i don't know there's something about it that i just absolutely can't get enough of i love it So I don't know why my brain just went here for this, and and this is going to hard left turn, but um Nine Inch Nails is doing the new Tron soundtrack.
00:15:49
Speaker
Yes. I'm very excited about that. Me too. I've always been a Nine Inch Nails fan. I heard somebody the other day, I overheard somebody say, um was talking to somebody about this, and they were just like, oh, you know those two guys that do like the film scores and stuff?
00:16:04
Speaker
They're actually in a band, and the band is called Nine Inch Nails. crucify them I was like I have to leave I have to leave I just have to walk out of the room right now was like because if I don't I don't know what's gonna happen trust they will be dealt with like death to all them death to all of them wow um yeah yeah those film score guys are in a band right I was like okay okay cool cool cool that's where we're at yeah hug your kids hug your kids everybody teach your kids teach your kids yeah open the schools open the schools open the schools um
00:16:37
Speaker
another the Another summer song. and and This is maybe one of my ultimate summer songs. Another hard left turn is Hanson's Mbop. i I just saw that on a playlist on Spotify and I was like, you know what?
00:16:51
Speaker
Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. ah hu yeah That song. So the specific memory that I have thated that's tied to this song is we heard it on the radio. This is a ah really funny thing that I used to do with my family.
00:17:02
Speaker
When we were kids, my parents would take us to this random ass cow farm out in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Okay. And we would go to the cow. There was a cow farm where we could feed the cows. Yeah.
00:17:14
Speaker
But then we would also, they had a bunch of nature trails with like a stream and it was like all this stuff. So i remember driving there and hearing the song on the radio and being like obsessed, being like, I need to like, I need to like have this in my life. And that's really what kind of opened up my love of music to the way that we know it as it is today.
00:17:35
Speaker
um but like, I just have a very fun association. I remember afterwards we got ah Dear Queen blizzards. Like that's how much that song permeated my brain. It changed, I think, the chemistry. So it seems.
00:17:47
Speaker
Yeah. And so Hanson and Bop will always be a summer song for me. I'm into it. I'm absolutely into it. And it was the first album that I ever got was their Middle of Nowhere album.
00:17:58
Speaker
I feel like that's one of those, like, that's the era when you would order albums from Columbia House. Totally. You know, like, I feel like that's like one of the 12 that you get for a penny. That is totally a Columbia House album yeah for sure.
00:18:10
Speaker
yeah um Disco song that I absolutely will always make me think of Summer because it makes me immediately think of T-Dance is Diana Ross, the boss. Oh, fun. Like that song at an outdoor party.
00:18:21
Speaker
Forget about it. Yeah. Phenomenal. Yeah. They need to play more Diana Ross. At that the tea dances that I've been to this summer, they have not played Diana Ross. Oh, God, no, no. Digimark, get out there.
00:18:33
Speaker
Digimark, come on.
Unexpected Party Music Surprises
00:18:35
Speaker
Or if they did, I didn't notice it. Maybe I had like gone inside or to the woods or whatever. You can get the Eric Huppa remix in there, Digimark. right exactly um what they did play and this was i didn't know this dj um but what they did play and i was gonna text you but my service gets kind of spotty out there um and i was so excited i was so excited about it and i'm so excited that we get to talk about her yet again on the podcast they played tonight's the night by gina g i knew you were gonna say something gina g And let me tell you what, if Gina G isn't already the most rare niche artist that I could you ever talk about, her song Tonight's the Night is even more niche because it's not part of her one big album that she's ever had. It was this random song she released in 2006. It's great. It's great like disco pop song.
00:19:24
Speaker
um And yeah all of a sudden he started playing it and I was like, my ears perked up and I was like, there's flask. fucking way in Saugatuck, Michigan. I'm hearing Gina G's Tonight's the Night right now. Right. Yeah.
00:19:35
Speaker
But it happened. who was the DJ? ah I could not tell you. I have no idea who he was. I'd never seen him before. he was great. he played so funny He played a lot of it. It was funny is actually kind of funny. I was almost like, does he listen to The Pod or something? Because ah around playing that song, he also played um Moto Blanco's remix of... it was either I think it was Do It Well by Jennifer Lopez.
00:20:00
Speaker
Anything Moto Blanco is summer. Yeah, of 100%. Anything. Especially Mary J. Bellagio's Be Without You. That song it might that is the son. Yeah. buts Yeah. yeah And I like turned to my friends and I was like, i was like we I just talked about this remixer on my podcast. I was like, this is really funny that this is happening right now.
00:20:17
Speaker
um so does Is everybody aware of your affinity for Gina G, by the way? Of my friends? Yeah, like are they all aware? Yeah, I made sure that they were aware at that moment. Right. um Because I turned i turned to – so ah ah this guy who's a new friend of mine, his name is Jason. I just met him last weekend on the trip.
00:20:35
Speaker
um I had turned to him, and he is more my age, although a little bit older. We'll just clarify a little bit older. um So I turned to him and I was like, do you know who Gina G is? And he was like, no. And I was like, do you know the song – oh Just a little bit and it was like oh of course And I was like yeah and I was like I was like this is Gina G And I was like no one knows her but me And I was like I love that she And he was like oh this is so fun so It was so fun I was like we have to get Gina G's name out there I mean but Gina come on the pod Gina come on the po gina come on the pod Like that would be ridiculous but yes
00:21:12
Speaker
I'm just going to keep saying it until we get somebody on here. Literally, because she's not on social media. So whoever, if this is, to anyone that knows Gina G, tell her she needs to be on this podcast.
00:21:23
Speaker
I cannot Not an APB for Miss Gina G.
00:21:28
Speaker
Okay, here's a random song from the from the playlist that I absolutely love and always brings in summer for me. um It's Santana's Why Don't You and I featuring either Chad Kroger or Alex Band. There's two versions.
00:21:40
Speaker
Okay. So I chose the Alex Band version, but um yeah, love that song. I'm into that. That's a random one, but I love it. random um my me having a little rock moment um and it's also paired right in the in the playlist right next to each other ah meredith brooks bitch work work i hate the world today that's a summer song for you It is because it the same so the same summer that I got into Hanson's Mbop, that's when I started then getting into MTV. And so I remember Hanson's Mbop playing a lot on MTV at that time.
00:22:20
Speaker
Bitch by Meredith Brooks was being played a lot at that time. um Another song, ah ah same era, Torn by Natalie Imbruglia. Right, right. See, but like I'm thinking more like ah Stars Are Blind, Paris Hilton.
00:22:35
Speaker
yeah That too, though. yeah That's this great summer song. yeah That is an excellent song. Yes. A song that we've talked about on the podcast before, Everything My Heart Desires, Mandy Moore.
00:22:45
Speaker
Always. Always. The the always always always underappreciated dance bop of her catalog.
00:22:53
Speaker
It's like way too underrated. Yeah. It sucks that it wasn't a single. I get why it wasn't, but like it sucks. There's also definitely like a nineties dance moment. Surprise. Shocking to everyone.
00:23:05
Speaker
Let me go get my surprise face. right Right. We have, we have real McCoy's another night. Of course. Their cover, their cover of Shania Twain's. If you're not in it for love, I'm out of here is so insane.
00:23:18
Speaker
Oh my God. I can't even imagine. oh You haven't heard it? Oh my God. i
Incorporating Nostalgic Hits into Peloton Classes
00:23:23
Speaker
don't think I have. Maybe once before. yeah You have to listen to It's so insane. Is it like on par with another? Is it like the same universe? yeah. It's like sonically. Okay. yeah were' in Then I'm in for a wild ride.
00:23:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. ah And then another song that lives in this universe is Amber's This Is Your Night. Everything Amber. Amber is it just a summer artist for me. Yes.
00:23:45
Speaker
She's a what artist? Wait. a so A summer artist. Oh, yeah. one hundred percent 100%. She famously wrote some of my favorite lyrics. and dubb it w up and didt dot and bang dubbit dabb but upitt dot ba
00:23:56
Speaker
I mean, I completely agree. Right. Because also some of my other favorite lyrics from Annie Lennox.
00:24:06
Speaker
ah yeah I'm always good for a little, di it upde you know? and literally Literally. And let me tell you what, that will now get me stuck in my head the rest of the day. Thank you. Thank you for that.
00:24:17
Speaker
um ah Here's a ah deep cut ah jewel track run to you from 0304. Same album. don't know if I know that one. it You would love it.
00:24:28
Speaker
I think that you would love it. It's produced by Lester Mendez. I believe the whole album was produced by Lester Mendez. um But this song definitely gives some Thunderpuss vibes.
00:24:38
Speaker
Not like... so The production is definitely more laid back. like It's not aggressive at all. But there are certain sounds that you'll hear in it. You'll be like, oh, that's exactly what he means when it's when he says Thunderpuss.
00:24:50
Speaker
and It almost kind of like this... It's not a horn, but it's like this, like it's almost sounds like hawk shrieking. Oh yeah. Do you know what sound I'm talking about? I know exactly what you're talking about. It's like an eagle in the sky. Yeah.
00:25:05
Speaker
ah Yeah. And it's so, and then I, uh, there's a lyric in the song where she says, would you dance from me beneath the street lamps light with your arms stretched out, baby drunk on wine that I just, every time she sings it, it's great. It's a, you would love this song. yeah It's a great song.
00:25:23
Speaker
um What else is on here? So this the original version of this song does not is not associated with Summer for me necessarily, but this specific remix is because I remember listening to this Maxi single in the summertime. Ooh, Maxi single.
00:25:41
Speaker
Maxi single. Um...
00:25:48
Speaker
I was getting excited about the term maxi single. God, maxi single noted. Hey, um, shares believe almighty remix. I mean, I just, yeah, I could go into, we'd have to do a whole nother podcast about my feelings with that song and my attachment to that song.
00:26:06
Speaker
But yeah, hey totally. let's Let's do it because it yeah it deserves all of it. Um, but that, yeah, that specific remix, I remember, because this is like during my time, again, this is like, around ninety seven Between 97 and 99, this is like my discovery period for music. And I'm just like taking it all in. I'm curating my taste. I'm figuring out what I love, what I dislike.
00:26:26
Speaker
And initially, I was not a remix girl. i initially hated remixes. I was like a lot of the other people out there, and I hated remixes. But I remember getting these maxi singles, and I was like...
00:26:38
Speaker
Well, I want to start, like, if I'm going to own these, like, I need to, like, maybe listen to them and give them a try. And i don't know what necessarily changed my my views on remixes. Maybe this was one of them, honestly. Right, right. um Or or maybe or so honestly, it was probably the Thunderpuss remix of It's Not Right, but it's okay.
00:26:55
Speaker
But that's a different story. um But I remember this remix in particular at the time caught my ear. and I was like, oh, this slaps. Like, this yeah is it for me. Yeah. Yeah. The almighty mix of all or nothing is the one that I love the most from that era.
00:27:10
Speaker
love it. It's good mix. It's good. It really is. It's the perfect pump up for that song. I think I actually just put that specific mix on our um volleyball playlist. Work. Yes. Yes. Absolutely.
00:27:26
Speaker
Yes. And in in the same ah token, I think this is honestly, again, my brain, i don't even know how i remember this, but because I was like 12 or 13 at the time, but the same day that I discovered that Believe remix, I discovered this club mix for Deborah Cox. It's the Hex Hector club mix of It's Over Now.
00:27:43
Speaker
So both of those remixes have a strong tie to summer for me. Oh yeah. um That's such a good mix. i the Especially the breakdown in in It's Over Now.
00:27:54
Speaker
Like, you've been cheating, cheating, cheating. They just don't do that anymore. They don't. They don't. Let me tell you, the drag queens used to go wild over that shit in the club.
00:28:07
Speaker
Wild. Take me fucking back. So i on the dance tip, I feel like the one that's always eternal is, you know, Stardust's Music Sounds Better With You.
00:28:18
Speaker
Oh, 100%. That's just like, I've never seen a party that that song doesn't work at, but like specifically when you're outdoors, it's really, really hard to beat. It really is. And especially especially like, you know, as the sun is setting, like there is some sort of atmosphere that that song creates.
00:28:36
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. one hundred percent 100%. That song. And it's, i love that you said that there's a Ben, is it Ben Aldris or Aldis? Yeah. Aldiss. Peloton.
00:28:46
Speaker
Aldiss. Aldiss, yeah. So I do a lot of his core classes on Peloton. Oh, yeah. And he did an EDM core class, I think, last summer that I love, and it opens with that song.
00:28:57
Speaker
Work. Yeah. Yeah, no. so There's like a little bit of a universe in dance music where it's like that song, Lola's Theme by the Shapeshifters, So Many Times by Gadjo, Lady Hear Me Tonight by Mojo.
00:29:10
Speaker
Yeah, I was just going to say that. Yes. I'm like, it's all of those are sort of like in the same like time era, whatever moment in time for me. And I'm like, yeah, I love all that. Yeah. Throw in um Love to See You Cry by Enrique Iglesias. I mean, any way we can get Enrique in there. Right.
00:29:29
Speaker
um Love Me Like That featuring Carly Rae Jepsen by The Knox, specifically their remix of the song, Summer Banger. Yeah, the Knox actually put out, and we love them, obviously, but um I want to say it was
The Knox's Album and Peloton Performance
00:29:42
Speaker
last year. I always go very hard for this song for them. um It's called Lover.
00:29:47
Speaker
The Knox featuring doris Dolores Forever. Okay, I'm not familiar with this one. It is oh my God, I think it's actually one of their best songs. o I mean their new album if you have not heard it I'll give them a plug here for sure because like I love them both but it's Revelation that album we just had them come by and perform at Peloton for like a little summer thing that we did yeah it was so fun and they're so great but um the album it's just it's them and Dragonette it is have you listened to it?
00:30:12
Speaker
No, I haven't. Oh my God. You of all people, Zach, I am surprised at you. I know. Because it's so like, it's very, um, like 80s synth pop. Oh, you are going to love this. This is going to be one of your, one of your albums of the summer for sure. I can't wait. I cannot wait. How was DJing with them by the way?
00:30:30
Speaker
look I mean, I DJ with James, which is a, so, uh, the knocks are Ben and James and Ben lives in, so I think further upstate New York, but James is in Brooklyn and we DJ at, uh, place called chow chow disco in brooklyn and they're just cool like they're just nice guys and it's yeah after doing this for so long you meet a lot of people with a lot of ego in dance music so when you meet people that are like so super talented and also so nice it's like oh wow like that's this is what it should be about like we work in an environment that's a party like let's get it together
00:31:01
Speaker
um But yeah, they came by and so we just to celebrate the new album, I opened for them and then they did and like an hour set where they played songs from the album as well as other stuff. And then two of the other girls on my team, shout out to DJ Molecule and DJ Nine Lives.
00:31:15
Speaker
um closed afterwards but it's just a good vibe we have a really beautiful terrace at my hq and it was just wonderful weather wonderful music it was really really fun it was a good day at work so love them i can't say enough about them but really go go stream that album go stream revelation because it's phenomenal That sounds like a great Saturday chore to do. Not chore, but nice little activity.
00:31:40
Speaker
um Let's see. What others? Gosh, there are so many songs on this playlist. um that i Another song, Alpha Beats, DJ. Oh, yeah. Specifically the single version that they did. i love that. um ah the ah very This is very niche. George Michael did a cover of his own song, ah I'm Your Man, and remixed by John Douglas. So that remix. don't know that.
00:32:08
Speaker
So it was, you know, the extended version of fast love. Yeah. that So it's the latter half of fast love, but even more rare as they did a separate version where it's no longer part of fast love. It's like its own individual track. So it's, they put it on streaming as part of the older, like anniversary album.
00:32:28
Speaker
And it's so good. Like it gives me cookout vibes after this. Yeah, it's really, really good. um What else? ah Kevin Avianza Live, Millennium Funk Mix. So good.
00:32:39
Speaker
So good. um I actually just put one of the new Kesha songs on here, Love Forever. um It's giving me just like we're lounging by the pool, having a cookout vibes. It gives me very similar vibes to the song Feels Right by Carly Rae Jepsen and Electric Guest. Oh, work. Yes. From Dedicated. Yes. so Both of those songs, just very like laid back, funky vibes. You know what I think we should do?
00:33:02
Speaker
I'm just in real time here. I feel like we should have companion playlists. We should. I'm just thinking this through now. And I'm like, how do we, hmm. For like for the episodes?
00:33:13
Speaker
I don't know if it's for the episodes or if it's just for like certain topics of things that we're like we talk about. We can cut all this part out um or leave it, whatever. But like maybe like a playlist of like songs we don't talk about enough. Right. Yeah. not At least that, but like, but I feel like something like this, like with summer would also be fun and timely.
00:33:30
Speaker
Absolutely. Yeah. no No, for sure. We should start doing that because like I'm imagining like a poolside pop playlist, poolside pop playlist. Shut the fuck up. You know, we love alliteration here in this corner. We love it. Yeah.
00:33:43
Speaker
Yeah. That'll PPP, you know, don't That's how it happens.
00:33:49
Speaker
That's right. That's right. that's right um Another Mariah Carey, several Mariah Carey songs are actually on here. know that she gets a lot of love for Christmas, which rightfully so, but for me, it has a lot of summer songs. Honey made it. Oh, yeah.
00:34:06
Speaker
Also her song, I'll Be Loving You Long Time. So good. That one a hit that really got away, in my opinion. That one, and like I said, I'm always going to go hard for Meteorite, and you don't know what to do from the other one. but Yeah, yeah, 100%. But also, I'm that chick from that album.
00:34:22
Speaker
I feel like that's the other underappreciated one. Yeah, 100%. E equals MC squared. It's so fascinating. It was hot off the heels off of i Emancipation of Mimi.
00:34:35
Speaker
um Obviously Touch My Body did really, really well. But the rest of the singles kind of, I don't for whatever reason, like kind of didn't do as well as they had hoped, which is just, it's strange because they're all great songs. Even like um I Stay In Love With You.
00:34:52
Speaker
That chorus gets stuck in my head all the time. Yeah. I love that song. ah Tony Moran mixes of that too is so good. Right? Ugh, my gosh. um a lot it's Several songs from Beyonce's The Gift album, like her companion album to The Lion King around here. Brown Skin Girl.
00:35:08
Speaker
i love Brown Skin Girl so much. It's so good. i remember the first time I heard that song, it made me cry. Mm-hmm. The video is so beautiful. Yeah. Made me think of my sister. And but before people yell at me because I'm white, my sister is ah is half Indian. So suck it.
00:35:24
Speaker
Yeah. So um the song Crushed 1980 Me by Mr. Hayes. I was going to say Crushed by Jennifer Page. ah That too, though. has to be Oh, my gosh.
00:35:39
Speaker
A little crush. Crush. not like anything you might know me i once was jennifer page's whispers
00:35:49
Speaker
yeah
00:35:53
Speaker
so good do you know do you know the song sunday best by surfaces no they had a song with elton john i don't know if it was um i can't think of the name of it right now was it so no it wasn't that one but they're All of their music is very sort of like summer to begin with. I think Sunday Best is the one that they're most known for.
00:36:10
Speaker
um I feel like you would like it. is very, very sort of breezy pop. um I think it's two guys, but it's really, really cool. What was name? Ready to Fly, I think, was the one with Elton that I liked. love that. But yeah, really, really good.
00:36:22
Speaker
Another artist that made the ah lot three songs from their her album on this playlist is Stacey Rico.
00:36:31
Speaker
There's Gotta Be More to Life, Security, and I Could Be the One. um All from her album. I think it's just self-titled album st Stacey Rico. ah The reason why that album came out ah summer of 03.
00:36:45
Speaker
And I was obsessed. I was very much in youth group at the time and very involved with Christianity. So like, you know, pop Christian crossover was very big in this house. And fun fact, my brother's band opened for her at my local town's ah Venetian festival. She somehow booked the gig before she blew up. That is so crazy.
00:37:06
Speaker
And so they like, yeah, so they opened for her. i remember him, i remember him at the time being like, oh, she's like stuck up. She's not like coming out of her tour bus or anything, but like also him also being a snotty teenager and not knowing anything about touring. Like now that he's in a band, like in real life as, as an adult, like he completely gets it.
00:37:24
Speaker
Um, but at the time he was like, oh, she did like whatever. And so he finally, like, she finally came out of her van or like going to the stage and he like yelled out to He'd go, Stacy, Stacy. don't suck and then she was just like h poor stacy i know just bullying her i'm i'm on her spotify right now because i'm like what has she been up to nothing is the short version but nothing yeah she actually had a whole album before 2003 album did not know that looking at that i think it's called genuine right yeah i had no idea um
00:37:58
Speaker
Yeah, that's wild. I actually remember hearing, like, obviously I knew there's got to be more than life, but the first time I heard Stuck, KTU, which was our local record, like our local radio station, always played the dance mix versions of the songs. Like there was Z100 and PLJ, like they played the regular versions, but KTU always did the dance version. And The first time I heard stuck was the Thunderpuss version on the radio. And I was like, what is this?
00:38:23
Speaker
Record skipping, record skipping, record skipping. love that so much. It's so good. I know. Yeah.
Stacy Arrico's Music and Christian Crossover Era
00:38:31
Speaker
She's. I got to bring that. I got to bring that song back. That's going to end up in a Peloton class now because of this podcast. I'm definitely going to put stuck in there.
00:38:38
Speaker
You need to. I mean, like. I can't get out of bed today. Actually, you I got to see. I got wait till the next time I have a class with Cody and get ah there's got to be more than life in there. do it talk about sing-along moment literally i love that type of shit it's so good and that song like it i just there's something about that song in particular that just hits home for me oh yeah and the music video is so good she wears one of the dresses she wears in that video uh britney spears also wears in one of her like calendar photos yeah i'm just like i'm like oh my god everything it's just yeah it's so good i love stacy urico
00:39:17
Speaker
And now I think she's like a yoga instructor. Good for her. ah Could you imagine, could you fucking imagine going to a class and being like, wait a minute. cause She's, ah she's very striking. She is, yeah you can, you can pick her out of a fucking crowd. And so like, could you imagine going to a yoga class and be like, wait, Stacy, Stacy Arrico.
00:39:38
Speaker
Yeah. I would be like, would go in there and just be like, God, there must be something more to life, isn't there? I know. you know what? I've been i've been feeling a little stuck. So i'm hoping that this yoga. ah You know, i couldn't get out of bed today, but something was on my mind.
00:39:58
Speaker
Oh, God. Oh, my God. Let's see. Are there any other songs I want to highlight on this playlist that are, I mean, there's there are so many. I mean, obviously, I would say Teenage Dream, Last Friday Night, California Girls, all Ultimate.
00:40:13
Speaker
Jenna Jackson, All For You. Janet Jackson, All For You. um Let's see. Backstreet Boys Just Want You To Know. Oh, yeah. Their yeah Never Gone album came out that summer. And so a lot of those, I remember listening to that a lot at the beach when I lived on the, beach where i my hometown's on the beach. So um we were there lot. the first time I got to see them was that tour.
00:40:36
Speaker
Oh, really? It was so good. was so good. I love that album so much. It doesn't get appreciated enough. Weird World, Poster Girl. Siberia? Siberia. Siberia Hive, rise up.
00:40:49
Speaker
I love, it's so good. i think I think they have risen because I think that they're performing that song at their Sphere show. Are they? I'm so mad I'm not going to make it. think it's the only the album. I would love to go. would love to see the Sphere.
00:41:02
Speaker
Yeah, my somebody that I worked with, my friend Travis, just went and he was showing me videos. It's unbelievable what they're doing in there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so cool. Well, the last one I want to highlight is the song that I want to highlight on songs we don't talk about enough. I know that we've just covered a lot of ground, but this is the famous section of the show ah where we cover, you know, a song we don't talk about enough that is maybe a deep cut. Maybe it's a rare remix bonus track, if you will.
00:41:30
Speaker
um Do you want me to go first this time?
Hilary Duff's Comeback and Depeche Mode Influence
00:41:32
Speaker
ah Yeah. or but I don't think ah I do have a song, but I don't know. i don't think I talked about it last time. I think I talked about, we talked about Wild Orchid and we talked about Pia Mia and yeah, yeah. So I think I do. yeah and And this is really, really random and she comes up every once in a while. And I just read recently that she's apparently going to be getting back into music again, which makes me very, very happy.
00:41:54
Speaker
So I cannot wait for that and to cheer her on because I'm always rooting for her. But in hold on i don't want to get it wrong i want to say it was 06 let me get the right date um i think it was a track that was actually on a greatest hits oh oh eight oh eight it looks like okay um reach out by hillary duff Oh my God, yes.
00:42:17
Speaker
This is probably my favorite Hilary Duff song, but probably because of the Depeche Mode. Yeah, because I love the Depeche Mode sample and like how it uses the drums for that. I love the video for this song. She looks so good in this video. She's got this blonde, like pin straight like bob type of, but it's like an angular.
00:42:37
Speaker
So it's like longer in the front and shorter, but it's like a long bob, a lob, if you will. A lob. A lob. And it's just, she's got like the, I don't even know. It's just, I love the video. I was so obsessed with it. And I just, it's got like 8 million streams on there. So I know I'm not alone. And it's a Ryan Tedder production and you know, whatever. So we love that. But I just big fan. Miss Hillary cannot wait for you to come back to music.
00:43:02
Speaker
We let you down with sparks. We won't let you down this time. We will not let you down this time. I remember that, I remember that video specifically. I remember ah her like, sucking the guy's thumb or something like that. Yes. Licking his thumb. And I remember being like, she's so naughty. Like she's, she's in her sexual era. Right, right, right. And I'm just like, look at how they're lighting her.
00:43:22
Speaker
Yes. What a good, and you know who did a sickening remix of that song? I want to say it was Richard Vision. Yes. That absolutely loved. Like the way that he did the sense from Tepecimo's personal Jesus in that. Like, oh my God, it's so good. It's good. So good. That one and Stranger too. They were both the same era and I love Stranger. Big fan of that one.
00:43:45
Speaker
Yeah, Stranger is so good. any Anytime a girl goes does a little Middle Eastern moment. Right. and they And they culturally appropriate. Right. now That's I'm going to start commenting online.
00:43:58
Speaker
Cultural appropriation. but Exactly. Because she served. She did. She did. um So this song that I'm going to select um might be a little controversial. And I don't think that I've talked about this. Correct me if I'm wrong.
00:44:13
Speaker
um Because it was technically a hit, but I feel like it is often forgot about, especially when we talk about all field female collaborations.
Celebrating 'Not Tonight' and Summer Vibes
00:44:23
Speaker
um This was a top 10 hit.
00:44:25
Speaker
I believe it peaked at number six on the Hot 100. It was 100% one of my songs of the summer back in 1997 and continues to hold true up and to this day and age for me.
00:44:35
Speaker
um It is the Not Tonight Ladies Night remix by Lil' Kim, Da Brat, Left Eye, Angie Martinez, and Missy Elliott. Let me tell you something about Miss Angie Martinez, first of all. And I'm i'm um yes i'm putting this out into the universe because her album is missing from streaming.
00:44:51
Speaker
ah put it on streaming immediately. We need to figure that out. We need to figure that out. yeah Her name does not come up often enough. That's why I had to take the time, but please go on. Right. Yes. But this song, I remember, I forget, this remix was included to so a soundtrack to some movie. um And I remember the video being like...
00:45:09
Speaker
the girls all going out and some like secret islands, like getaway type of thing. And I just have never wanted to be on vacation more, um than watching this video. It's an, again, an all female collab. and We do not talk about it. No, people do not talk about this.
00:45:25
Speaker
Um, it's, it interpolates ladies night by cool and the gang. Um, every girl has their own verse on the song. Missy Elliott sings the chorus.
00:45:36
Speaker
And it's just, it's such a feel good, fun summer song. It really is. And I never feel more into rap than I do when I want listen to that song. You're like, I'm very hardcore.
00:45:48
Speaker
I'm so hardcore. um i remember, I even remember that there was this game that we had. I think it was called Hollywood High. It was a a computer game that you could, it was kind of like a Sims type of thing. Oh, yeah.
00:46:01
Speaker
Make people do stuff and like you can create their own dialogue and whatnot. And i remember typing the lyrics of this song into it and trying to make them. But I like didn't know some of the lyrics. So was just like making shit up. right And then the way that like the people would like respond back, it was just so funny. Wait, wait, wait.
00:46:17
Speaker
Because now we're talking about this and I've been, so I have been bitching about the fact that Angie Martinez, if I could go, has not been on streaming for a very, very long time. And I have yeah brought it up and to anyone that will listen to me.
00:46:30
Speaker
yeah And I don't know when they put it up, but they put the single up. Oh, well, let's celebrate that. It's up. If I could go featuring Angie Martinez, Lil Mo and Sicario. Oh my God. Okay. am so excited. oh my God. I love this song. Oh my God. Angie Martinez, I will contribute to you eating this year a lot.
00:46:48
Speaker
Love, please. Love. Please, please, please. i'm sorry So yeah, i you know this song, again, it was a huge hit. I remember they performed it at the VMAs in like ah like royal or royal ah Roman like emperor gear type of things, um which was so much fun.
00:47:03
Speaker
But when we talk about all-female collabs and like hits and things like that, i just this song gets overshadowed and underlooked. And when you said all-female collab, I had no idea where it was going to go. Because I'm like, he's not going to talk about Lady Marmalade. I know it's not that one.
00:47:16
Speaker
And I was like, what other songs could it be? And I'm wrecking my brain. And I'm like, I don't think it's that song Girls with Cardi B and Bebe Rexha. I was like, but how many others? many other old female collabs are there oh my god that one needs to be overlooked and thrown away like oh my god i like wait minute that's so funny wow yeah what did that that have that did happen and now i'm gonna go and make my husband watch this hillary duff music video Hell yeah.
00:47:46
Speaker
I love that. yeah Well, this was fun. This is how you were able to two hours, two hours. I'm glad that we were able to do a little fun bonus double episode. um I'll do in post like a little to, you know, whatever, right all that's fun stuff.
00:48:02
Speaker
But, This was fun. Yeah. Thanks for joining me on this and this journey. Have fun in Croatia. Oh, thank you so much. I cannot wait. and Hopefully, I'm going to try to find some record stores and see if I find anything interesting out there. and Hell yeah. don't know. want to know what they're listening to.
00:48:16
Speaker
um Seriously. Right. I can't wait. i can't wait to see ah see what they have. Right before we go, speaking of records, BT was going through his closet. He has a secret closet in his house that where he holds like all these really fun, rare pressings of all of his albums. Oh, dear. Yeah.
00:48:30
Speaker
And so he was just like kind of doing a tour of that in one of his Instagram videos. what she's out yeah um mcness And he, he was sewing, he was showing off like a rare pressing of ah movement and still life. He was showing off a rare pressing of,
00:48:46
Speaker
Actually, no, it was just like, who's just showing off movement and still life. He was like from like, one was like from Australia. one was from like, I don't even remember where, but they were, it was really cool. It was really cool to see. They did. I just had to, I got these all in so that way we could do this class, one of the Armada classes at work. But do you know his track with, um, Naughty Ali must be the love.
00:49:06
Speaker
Yeah, ah no. No, i it's I think it's Artie, Nadia. I think it came out like years and years ago, but maybe 10 years ago. But it was Artie, which is this Russian DJ, Nadia Ali from EO, and then BT did a track called Must Be the Love. They just put out a new trance remix of it this year.
00:49:23
Speaker
Oh, fun. Love that. Yeah. I love, I love him. and love him. but I've been really deep diving through his music, uh, in recent years, just cause had my songs that I loved of his, but then like other parts of his discography were just kind of like unnoticed from me. And so what a genius, what a musical genius. I just, the way I was obsessed with love comes again, literally song. Uh, I just really, that song is so good. That one. And, um, uh, what is it? Um,
00:49:53
Speaker
My favorite BT song. ah so so um soamul so I never get it right. Somnambulist. It's like a weird. Somnambulist. Somnambulist. I never get that word right. yeah But that song. which Oh my God.
00:50:05
Speaker
It's so good. And it holds a world record at least. I believe still holds a world record to this day for most vocal edits in one song. Really? i didn't know that. because yeah he like There's like thousands of vocal edits that he did in that song. Oh, I'm sure. Simply Being Loved. That's what it is. I couldn't think of it. ah The Sander Kleinenberg mix of that.
00:50:21
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Phenomenal. Yeah. going to listen to that today too. His, that album, that entire album, um, emotional technology is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's so good.
00:50:32
Speaker
It is excellent. The song that he did with Rose McGowan, super fabulous. Oh yeah. So good. See, I miss that type of like what they when they used to do that in dance music was like get random like actresses. Like you get Paul Oakenfold and Brittany Murphy. You get Rose McGowan and BT. You know, like just do some shit like that. I love that. getting yeah Naomi Campbell put out a whole album in the 90s. You know, like let's do more of that shit. Right. but Please.
00:50:56
Speaker
Yeah. More non-singers need to make music. Yeah. Nicole Kidman, get in the studio. Get in the studio, goddammit. Right. Well, on that note, have fun in Croatia. thank you. I'm so excited that we were able to do this. Thanks for listening, everyone.
00:51:11
Speaker
And until next time, peace out. Bye.