Episode Details

What do we make of the existence of song twins and movie twins today? 

This week, Aaron and Joey talk about the zeitgeist, movie marketing, Timbaland, Beyoncé vs. Azealia Banks, Western musical notes, and Baroque Pop (again). They don’t talk about Laurent and Larry Bourgeois. 

references 

• Joey and Aaron are reunited and it feels like sweet love. 
• "Sissy That Walk" 
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 
• Armageddon and Deep Impact 
• Big Hero 6 and Next Gen 
• Ron’s Gone Wrong and The Mitchells vs. The Machines 
• Volcano and Dante's Peak 
• No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits 
• Finding Nemo and The Reef 
• Cheddar: Why Are Identical Movies Released at the Same Time? 
• Corrections Department: Rich Harrison, not Rodney Jerkins 
• Corrections Department Again: Amerie's "1 Thing" (not Ashanti ... or Mýa) and Toni Braxton's "Take This Ring" 
• Timbaland's Shock Value and Shock Value 2 
• Justin Timberlake and Timbaland's "Cry Me a River" 
• Corrections Department Yet Again: Neither Azealia Banks nor Beyoncé "brought house back." House NEVER left. Not even in pop music. 
• Don't Look Up 
• Legend Adam Neely on Paramore, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, and other song twins 
• Why the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" is Such A Powerful Song 
• Revisiting Critical Nonsense 167 and Baroque Pop 
• Did Aaron ever know that he's our hero? 
• Hocus Pocus 2 
• Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (audio book | regular book) 
• Carrie Underwood's Denim & Rhinestones