NPR Music - Roséwave: Summer's Simple Pleasures

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

You asked, we listened: Roséwave is back! Our summer playlist series returns with syrupy sweet songs from the likes of Amerie, Wednesday, Addison Rae, Marvin Gaye, and more.Featured artists and songs:1. The Jamies: "Summertime Summertime"2. The Lijadu Sisters: "Come on Home," from 'Horizon Unlimited'3. Amerie: "Why Don't We Fall in Love," from 'All I Have'4. Waxahatchee: "Much Ado About Nothing," from 'Tigers Blood (Deluxe)'5. Wednesday: "Elderberry Wine," from 'Bleeds'6. Katie Gavin: "Aftertaste," from 'What a Relief'7. Marvin Gaye: "Ain't That Peculiar"8. Haku.: "Looking Through My Subtle Double Eyelids," from 'Catch' 9. Labi Siffre: "My Song," from 'Crying Laughing Loving Loving'10. Azymuth: "Faça de Conta," from 'Azimuth'11. Linda Ronstadt: "How Do I Make You," from 'Mad Love' 12. Addison Rae: "Diet Pepsi," from 'Addison''All Songs Considered' 25th anniversary segment: Our No. 1 songs from 2022Weekly reset: Sailing on the high seas.Enjoy the show? Share it with a friend and leave us a review on Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts. Questions, comments, suggestions or feedback of any kind always welcome: [e-mail] See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Well, America has spoken. They've had it with all the waiting and the wondering. They're just not going to do it anymore. They want their rosé wave playlist, and they want it now. This is not the vibe we're bringing into the party, Robin. It's all songs considered. I'm Robin Hilton, and after a painfully long, two-year break, Lars Gottridge, Marissa Laruso are back with some sweet summary jams to, well, I don't know.

What does Rose Wave do for you? What does Brose Wave do for me? Marissa, do you want to take this? Oh my God, I was just about to say, Lars, you start. You are the founder of Rose Wave. All right. There's a discussion in Slack about the band Hyam. And our colleague, Otis Hart, said, oh, yeah, they're rosé corps.

And I said, no, I think the preferred nomenclature. is Rose Wave. And the idea was not to name a certain style of music, but a style of being, where it's just that summery feeling. It's a little easy. It's a little breezy. It's a lot of feeling. It's a lot of Car They Raid Jepson style emotion, but is it necessarily pop music and

can be any kind of anything. So it started this series of summer playlist. It's a good shorthand. Yeah. Rosee, just rosé. It just says so much. So if people search for a rosé wave on our site, all one word, you will find literally hundreds of songs handpicked by y'all going back to 2017.

That's right. And for a good while, it was a summer tradition for us. Haven't done it for a couple of years. But America really has spoken. We did get. We got emails. We got emails. Oh, my gosh.

Post on social media. People are like, Can you think of any reason why you haven't given us the rosé wave mix that we deserve? But I managed to convince you to come back. Actually, the song that we've been listening to here, Summertime, Summertime, the 1958 classic by the Jamies, kind of can't believe you never featured this on any of your playlist. It feels a little too much like they're forcing me to have fun.

Mandatory fun. Yeah. That's not what I'm looking for. Well, we should get to some of this new stuff that you brought. And these aren't all new songs necessarily. But Marissa, why don't you start us off with something that you brought? What's the best place to start? I'm going to start with the song, Elderberry Wine, by the band Wednesday. I love this band so much.

They have a record coming out in the fall called Bleeds. And here's what I'll say. That album rips. Like there are big, super loud, super noisy guitars on it, a lot of distortion, a lot of intensity. But here's the thing that makes them rosé wave. This is a band from North Carolina, and they are very proud to be from North Carolina. They have this very country side to their music. And this song is from, I think, that side of the Wednesday discography.

It is perhaps the most easy, breezy, warm, young love kind of song on the record. So that all feels very rose wave canon to me. I really love this song, Lars, about how evocative the word rosé wave is, like you instantly know what you're going to get. And this isn't what I assume when I hear the word rosé wave, Marissa. Oh, really? I don't know. for me, there's just something that's so, like, the ideal way to listen to that song is

driving in a car with your friends with all the windows down. And a glass of wine. Well, okay. Okay, so maybe you have one designated driver and everyone else has enjoyed some rosé and you're, you know, driving in the car. I don't know. That feels very rosé wave in spirit to me. Well, I guess what I'm thinking is that when I hear rosé wave, I just assume, like,

nothing but pop bangers or bops, you know, just like, you're saying it's in what's much more complicated vibe than that. It's a feeling. It's a certain kind of sweetness. It's a certain kind of sadness, too, a little bit too. It's like allowing yourself to being in the emotion at the moment that you're having it. And so hanging out with your friends in a car, what a vibe. What a great. What a great vibe.

And that leads me right into the next song I want to play, which was also a vibe. I was at a community pool with some friends and their kids, and kids were splashing in the pool. There were teens who were not trying to look too cool, but playing volleyball, but they were still kind of looking cool. And there was some nice shade from the trees, and it was just like a nice day. And then all of a sudden, the song comes on, and my friend Jess says to me, this is the perfect song for right now. and I was a song by the Legato sisters called Come On Home. This came on a jukebox or something at the pool?

I think somebody made a playlist. This is great. I mean, if you were at the pool where I grew up and someone put a song on the jukebox, it was probably the Doobie Brothers. Oh, King's a phrase I wave. Absolutely. You know, or, oh, I can't believe I'm blanking on their name.

They did that song El Vira. I remember hearing all the time. Elvira, giddy, a balloon, bap. Boom, bop, bough, bow. No one? No one? No, you don't remember that? No, no.

What was that? Oh, the oak, was it the Oak Ridge Boys? But this is great. I don't, I love this song. These are twin sisters from Nigeria who are making music in the 60s and 70s. And they were very popular in Nigeria. And their story is fascinating because they wanted to make music. They loved the Afrobeat that was happening at the time in Nigeria.

They loved the funk music that was happening in America. and they loved folk music that was happening in America. But in Nigeria, in this time in particular, women weren't really allowed to do this kind of thing to have music career. So they, in addition to just making great little funky bops, they were also like this feminist message. And all of their songs kind of have this like funky, fokey and joyous beat.

So is it La Dajou? Let Le Jadu. Le Jadu Sisters come on home. So that's from a 1979 album called Horizon Unlimited. Great, great record. I can't recommend enough. So I'm just here for The Hang. I just want to hear what you guys are bringing.

And we've got a lot of stuff we want to play. So Marissa, let's go back to you. So Lilith Fair. Are you guys familiar with Lilith Fair? Are you kidding me? Okay. Well. I went through a major, major Lilith Fair phase.

Well, back when that was really popping, back in the 90s. And, yeah, no, it was, like, if you get out my CD Logic notebooks, they're full of all the albums from that time, Jewel. Okay, well, I have honestly been talking to people my age and a little bit younger lately who have never heard of Lilith Fair. Don't know that this festival, this all-woman lineup existed. Don't know that it was so enormously successful. I've gotten a handful of TikToks in my TikTok feed from young women being like, can you believe that they made this music festival with like, you know, Cheryl Crow and like Indigo Girls and it was women and people went. Anyway, all of that to say that there was an album that came out last year called What a

Relief by Katie Gavin. And she is perhaps best known as the front woman of the band Moona, but What a Relief was her solo album. And she described it in all of the interviews that she did around the album as being Lilith Faircore, which I think is so great and so extraordinarily rosé wave at its core. So anyway, the song that I would like to play by Katie Gavin is called Aftertaste. I think it is extremely breezy sitting by the pool with your girlie's gossiping kind of vibe, which has Rosea Wave written all over it. My hair got long, your hair got cut, you wear the same old sweater. It's good to see you. We're We're catching up.

We're talking about the weather. And I'm the empress in my new clothes. And I think that you must know when you're taking pity on me, pretending you don't see. I feel that you're... Yeah, I got to be honest, the vibe you're channeling in your picks, Marissa. I'm there for it. This is...

This feels like summer to me because everything's just a little... a little wistful, just a hint of melancholy, you know, it's like there's a weight to all of it in a way. It's not too breezy. Yeah, Robin, I was going to ask, what's your relationship to rosé? I mean, I think it, well, I was going to say, I think it must taste like sewer water, but if I'm being honest. Oh, my God. We're about to, here we go. Lars is uncapping a bottle of rosé as we speak.

Oh, my gosh. Marissa, where are we talking to you from? right now. I am in my closet in Brooklyn, New York. Well, I'm sorry you can't be here. I was going to say that if I'm being honest, I don't think I've actually ever had rosé, just because everything about, I mean, all right, let me just say that anything described as light, bright, and refreshing. I mean, that's just not what I'm looking for when I'm reaching for a bottle of wine. I want something dark and leathery and Woodsy to go with the night, which is the space

that I like to inhabit. But you brought it here and I have a coffee mug, so we'll just Get some nice audio. There we go. Okay. Oh. Oh, God. How do you do it? This is admittedly the cheap one that I just got from the grocery store around the corner.

Lars, can you give us some tasting notes? We've got some, I would say, grapefruit. It's very tart. Oh, beautiful. It's so sweet. So I've said this before on the show I most recently was talking with Stephen Thompson about this because he really, really loves Muna.

And I've kind of missed the Muna boat. But I like Katie Gavin's solo stuff more. I don't know, it's got a little more character or warmth to it. Yeah, it's real loose. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think that makes sense, Robin, because most of Muna's biggest hits are so, like,

get on the dance floor and cry. Yeah. And this, I don't know, if you are, a loath fare attendee, this is right in your lane, I feel like. All right, coming up later on the show, Stephen Thompson, will be here to talk about our number one songs from 2022. We've been doing a different year at the end of every episode this year, starting with the year 2000, going all the way up to 2024.

It's for our 25th anniversary. That's coming up, plus your weekly reset. So keep listening for that. Also, a reminder, if you like the show, the best way to support it is to tell a friend about it and leave us a review on Apple or Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Or I guess you could underwrite the show. That'd be a good way to support it.

Just give us money. Or just give us some cash. I don't know. How much you hold them? What do you have? What are we talking about here? So all the songs, Lars and Marissa, that you picked over the years for a rosé wave, they're scattered across a bunch of different playlists or subcategories.

These are pretty great. Single and sauced. Swipe right in 30 songs. Yeah. Shout out to Sidney Madden. That one was amazing. Brilliant. Here's another one.

Sippin and sprinting. Sipping and sprinting. A playlist for running drunk, I guess? No. All right. Here's something I want to make perfectly clear. Yes, when we started Rose Wave, Rose was a part of it.

But over the years, my understanding and a way that I approach Rose Wave has another. nothing to do with beverages at all. It's just something that makes you feel good. But, you know, well, I have run drunk. And I don't recommend it. I would go back when I was used to run, I used to run like about 50 miles a week. And I would go to a happy hour after work or something, right? Sure. And then I'd come home and go for a run and I'd be half in the bag. Wow. It's a good way to burn it off. Anyway, there are a lot more different playlists here. But my personal favorite that you all did is can you dig it 25 golden jams from a 1969 vintage

oh yeah Lauren Onkey oh did she do that one she did that one so you know as I said I was just here for the hang but when I saw the 1969 playlist I thought okay if it's going to be that kind of party I can play something here okay please Marvin Gay ain't that peculiar it's got a nice shimmy to it oh my gosh that's what you need anything anything from Marvin Gay works So if we're thinking about memories of summer and when summer was great, I did used to really enjoy it when I was growing up. I would go for these long bike rides in high school. And the Walkman was a fairly new invention at that point.

I know. I'm dating myself. But it meant that I could ride around on my bike and listen to music for the first time ever. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah, it was incredible. I cannot tell you what a novelty that was and how special that was. and I had this playlist I made, and it was full of Marvin Gay's stuff.

You mean a mixtape? It was a mixtape. It actually was, in fact, an actual mixtape on cassette. You'd see, I've been conditioned now to say playlist. It was an actual cassette, and I remember I had like Inner City Blues was on it. And I tried to remember what else was on that playlist. And I remember Queens, somebody to love. I had Rolling Stones.

You can't always get what you want. That was always my end of summer song. It was the last thing I'd listen to before school started again. That's a great tradition. Yeah. And then I had Giyanas Adagio by Kachachaturian. Okay. Do you know that piece?

I'm not familiar. Let's see. This is how it goes. It's most, was famously used in 2001 of Space Odyssey. This is playing, if you know the film when he's running? He's running, yeah. Okay, I thought, okay. Yeah.

I can see it, yeah. It's when he's jogging around the circle. And I don't know why I put this on my mix tape, but I have, many memories of listening to this as the sun's going down and I'm on my bike, speeding down the country roads of Kansas. Well, you know, a large part of Rose Wave is actually sadness and being willing to be vulnerable about your sadness. Okay. Oh, absolutely. I feel like there's an emotional range to Rose Wave. It's not just about fun in the sun because, you know, summer can be full of heartbreak and hardship and you need a soundtrack for that too. So there is this band from Japan called Haku.

and they had this viral TikTok of them doing Japanese tongue twister, so it was absolutely delightful, and I fell in love with the band as a result. And they put out an EP at the very beginning of the year. It is one of those indie pop songs that's very sweeny but sad at the same time, which is exactly my speed. And the song title is Looking Through My Settle Double Eyelids. Yeah, the translation that I read, it's like she's looking, in the mirror and she is describing her features as a young Japanese woman. But at the same time, she is wondering about her love life.

She's wondering about the future. She is very much in her feelings. And here we got this little peppy indie pop song to kind of get her through it. This is the first time I've heard this song and I am obsessed. I'm so glad you brought it, Lars. Yeah, I think this is one you don't really need to know what she's saying maybe. So the top comment on YouTube, understanding, 0%. Feeling 100%.

Cute. 100,000%. That is exactly it, yes. And I think it's only on video. I don't find it anywhere. They have an EP that came out earlier this year. Oh, okay. It's just a few songs.

They had an album come out a couple years ago. I'm obsessed with them. I desperately need them to come to the US. I think I'm also going to go slightly wistful here. and I'm going to play a song by Labby Sifery called My Song. Are you guys familiar with this? No, this is a new one to me. Oh my gosh.

Okay, so it's from this album that honestly gets played in my house a lot called Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying. The title track is really good too. I almost picked that song. But everything about this song to me is like so sweet. His voice is so sweet. The lyrics are so sweet. It makes me think about a way that you defined Rose Wave. many, many years ago, Lars, which is like, you know, if you're at, like, a backyard barbecue and

a bunch of your extended family is there, this is music that you could put on and, like, no one would be offended by it. Yeah. And obviously, inoffensive is not, like, a huge compliment to music, but I genuinely mean, like, anyone, I think, could hear the song and fall in love with it. Critics are saying it's not offensive. No, but I really do mean it in a genuine compliment sort of way. This is my song and no one can take it away.

It's been so long, but now you're here, here to stay. And I wonder if you know what it means to find your dreams come true. Marissa, this is so nice. It's so great. Love it. Love the piano. His voice is incredible. And there's a chance that someone might hear this song and not be familiar with him, but think that the song sounds familiar. And that is probably because it was sampled by the artist formerly known as Kanye West on his song, I Wonder.

I think I probably heard that Kanye song before. I heard this record and, you know, recognized it immediately. An amazing other story that I heard about Labi Sifery is that another song of his was sampled by Eminem. And I read that when Eminem was trying to get the sample clearance, Laby Sifree asked him to take out all the homophobia from the song before he would clear the sample, which is so awesome. And an incredible, I wish that could be a metric for all sample clearance of all time. But yeah, I love this record so much.

It's called Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying. He has a lot of really wonderful albums, but that's one that I'm the most familiar with. Well, that's really beautiful. The song, again, called My Song. from 1972. I'm going to keep it in the 70s, and I'm going to say this out loud because I was thinking about it today

and specifically in reference to this song, I need to make a friend with somebody who has a boat. This has been a goal of mine for many years. It doesn't matter if it's on the ocean or on a river or on a lake. All right. So anyone out there listening right now, email us all songs at npr.org. This sounds pretty serious.

Yeah, it really is. I think the point we're trying to make here is we need a boat. And you will hear this song on it. 1975 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is a trio called Asimuth. They mixed funk and jazz and samba and that was all very cosmic.

And they have this great song called Fossa to Jakuta. Marissa, you can't see it, but I have like a little smooth stank face. Of course, I'm picturing it. Smooth stank face. Yeah, it's kind of like, you know what, there's a really great bass line

and the bass guy is making a bass face? But it's like sometimes they're kind of ugly. This one's like, it's smooth. It's like, oh. Let's see. So that's Azamuth, A-Z-Y-M-U-T-H from a, self-titled album came out again in 1975. That's a great pick.

So I think you each have a couple more tracks you want to play. And Marissa, we're back to you. So I'm a longtime fan of Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee. She put out a record in 2020 called St. Cloud, which was this huge step up in terms of her songwriting, in terms of production, in terms of embracing this like Americana sound. And I think that marked the moment where Katie Crutchfield became a patron saint of Rosea Wave. Do you think that's true, Lars? Yes, absolutely. So ever since that record came out, I feel like there's a tons of things I could pick to be on this year's Rosea Wave playlist to make it into the canon. But I'm going to go with much ado about nothing. So this didn't come out on the original release of Tiger's Blood, right?

That came out, 2024? The deluxe version. Yeah. You know, they make a deluxe version. six weeks now. Right, yeah. Okay, and a thought just occurred to me as well, which is that Tiger's Blood, her last record, is named after a snow cone flavor, and I'm like, snow cones, that is so Rose-A-Wa. Oh, 1,000%. Yes. I really used to love getting snow cones. The real, like the faker, the better, right? Like, fake-dye. Just, just pieces, just giant pieces of ice. Oh, and not, and the crunchy kind, too, not the shaved, fluffy stuff that just sort of dissolves in your mouth when you need the crunchy, like...

So the stuff that ruins your teeth. Yeah, exactly, a little piece. But I mean, it's all ground up, it's little pieces and all the syrup would pool at the bottom of the cone. Oh my God, yeah. Yeah, and then you end up drinking the last... I have so many memories of, like, riding my bike through my neighborhood as a kid

just to go to the snow cone place with my little brother and it's just being like the best thing in the world. Well, that's a great pick. Much or do about nothing. Lars, let's go back to you. I like to think of this next artist as sort of like a precursor to Katie Crutchfield and Waxahatchee. So Linda Ronstadt is one of my favorite singers of all time.

And the hallmark of her artistry is that she was always willing to try new things. She was a soft rocker. She sang ballads. She did Mexican folk songs. She did show tunes. She did opera. She's done a little bit of everything. And that to me is sort of like a nice little tenant of Rose Wave,

trying new things and willing to be vulnerable. And in 1980, she, after a decade of making soft rock and kind of like folky rock songs, she decided to put out a new wave record. It is such a fun record that nobody talks about anymore. And in particular, I love this. called How Do I Make You? I do remember when this came out, and it was weird at the time because, yeah, I mean, I was thinking of, like, Blue Bayou or something like that from her.

Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what we would hear at the pool, and this came out, and I remember thinking, like, this sounds like Pat Benatar, because Pat Benatar had just had, I think, her first record, maybe the year before, something like that. And Blondie was in the air. Blondie was totally in the air. And, like, she worked with, like, a person who knew how to write these. kinds of songs.

His name Billy Steinberg. He wrote Like a Virgin. Oh, okay. He wrote Eternal Flame by the Bengals. Oh, wow. So, like, she knows who to work with. It's so fun. I, yeah, can't recommend.

This is a great first song, but the lyric is, how do I make you dream about me? Which, oh, my God. What a Rose-A-wife sentiment. Oh, my, is like, the peak of desire, but doing it in a very cute way. It sounds a little stalkery, though. Well, I know how much you love Linda Ronstat,

and I actually, when I was trying to thinking, if it's anything that I could possibly contribute, I actually considered a couple Linda Ronstat cuts, but I wouldn't have thought of this one, so great pick. So as I mentioned, Stephen Thompson is going to come on here at the end of the show and talk about our number one songs from 2022 as part of our 25th anniversary conversations we've been having all spring and summer,

and, of course, we'll have your weekly reset, but both of you still have one more song that you want to play. And Marissa, I think, what, you've been saving the best for last? I've certainly been saving something. Well, I was just trying. I'm not saying, I personally think it's the best. Earlier in our conversation, you said that you felt like Rose Wave, you expected, like, pure pop. And so I had to bring some of that to the show for sure.

And so I would like to discuss the song Diet Pepsi by Addison Ray. Is she the real deal? Because I've been getting some poser vibes. Is she the real deal? That's such a fascinating question, Robin. And I do think that she comes from a tradition of pop girlies that would say, what is real? You know? What does that mean to be a real deal pop star?

I do think she works. What is a poser now? What even is a poser? I do think that she comes very much from, you know, the Lana Delray lineage, who is a person who's very interested in, you know, authenticity for sure. But then also she really comes from the Britney Spears lineage, which is, you know, kind of pinnacle of quote unquote manufactured pop star. And I think she has a little bit of Madonna in here, who in there, which, you know, that's another person who would question the real. About a month or so ago, I actually sent a voice memo to Marissa and to Lindsay McKenna, are my co-creators in Rose Wave. It was a hot day. I was walking home from work from the Metro, and I was listening to the Addison Ray record

because a lot of people who I respect liked it. And I was like, all right, fine, I'll listen to it. And it wasn't clicking for me. It all felt a little anonymous. It was really hot out, so I ducked into the bodice. that's just down the street from where I live. And I got a cherry Coke icy. I'm on the edge of my seat here, Lars.

And just as I was sipping my cherry Coke icing, Diet Pepsi by Addison Ray came on. And you thought, I'm going to have Diet Pepsi instead. It's working. Yeah. And then something clicked for me because the original intent of Rose Wave was always about simple pleasures. and not having to think too hard about it. And that was when this song did click for me. Well, I guess Diet Pepsi feels like an appropriate name to me

because it's artificially sweetened and a largely empty experience. Okay. As a lover of Diet soda for better or worse, I'm going to push back on that and say artificially sweetened, but feels amazing. Not compared to the real thing. I will say that the first time I heard the song Diet Pepsi, I was like, what is going on here? It did not land for me.

But yeah, my love of Diet soda did give me a generous heart towards the song. And I think after repeat listens, yeah, I think that that puts it in the Rose Wave Canon for sure. Sometimes you just don't have to think too hard about it. Yeah, that's fair. Well, there's obviously a whole lot more music that we could play here. Lars, I think you're going to do a playlist, yeah, where people can find full versions of these songs and a bunch more. And a bunch, it's going to be from any era, from any style of music, from all over the world. I love making this as international and global and as fun as possible.

So what? That'll be in Spotify and Apple. I'm going to put it in as many streaming services as I possibly can. I love being inclusive with Rose Wave. All right. So you've got one more song that you want to take us out on. So, E. Marie is sort of like the Mariah Carey. of summertime, because Mariah Carey owns Christmas. Right, right? Of course, we all know this, yes.

My queen, but Ameri owns summer mostly based on the song, Why Don't Me Fall in Love? It's a song from 2002 is from her debut album, All I Have, and the thing that I love about why we don't fall in love is that it captures the desperation and sweetness around a summer love, like it actually has like a nice rhythm to it that makes you want to walk down a street on a hot summer day, hand in hand with your boo. Eating your snow cone. Eating your snow cone. Drinking your iced coffee, your iced tea, what have you.

And everything feels good and new and fresh. All right, we'll go out on this. But keep listening after the song, Stephen Thompson will be here to talk about our number one tracks from 2022, that plus your weekly reset, all coming up. The Lars Gottrich, Marissa Laruso, a grateful nation, thanks you. It was my pleasure to be here, Robin. Thank you so much. Robin just took another sip of his Roseanne.

He's making a face. It's actually, it's a little like champagne. It's a little champagne. It's like without the bubbles. All right, Stephen Thompson, back now to talk about our number one songs from 2022. as part of our look back at the past 25 years of all songs considered. Welcome, Stephen. Hello, Robin.

So 2022 was a pretty big year for me. It was the first year I did not do a top 10 albums or songs list at all. Why not? I don't really know why I didn't do one. But I haven't done one since 2021. I think, you know, I was so deep into New Music Friday. Oh, yeah. You know, I used to host New Music Friday.

I know this life. I think you're starting to figure it out. that you listen to so much music and your ears start getting bigger and bigger and bigger and you start just loving so much more stuff. Are you sure this isn't just we're getting older? I don't think it is that. I think it because... You meant figuratively.

Yes, I meant figuratively. Literally our ears are dropping. No, I just think I found while hosting you Music Friday and consuming that much stuff that I found it nearly impossible to whittle it down to just. Oh, tier 10 albums, the 10 best songs, because I just loved so much stuff. But, you know, you've been going first just about every time we've done this. But I'm going to go first with what I think is maybe what we would pick as our number one song for 2022. That's great.

Take it off my list because I got too many. Oh, yeah. We don't need to play Name the Tune with this. So Wet Leg, Shea's Long, from their self-titled debut. It actually dropped as a single in 2021. So if you... Yeah, some of us had it on our year-end best list in 2021. I mean, NPR Music had it on their best songs list for 2021.

I think we got that list wrong, by the way, because the number one song that NPR Music had for that year was Little Nas X's Montero. I mean, it's a great song. That's a great song. But I would have given it to... And Wet Leg came in second with Shays Long. I would have maybe given it to Wet Leg that year.

But the album that it's from came out in 20. 2022, so that's why I'm picking it. Yeah, and of course, Wetleg has a new album out now called Moistriser that is absolutely phenomenal. Just no sophomore slump or whatever. All-killer, no filler. It's like, yeah, it is a fearless, fearless follow-up to the self-titled record. Terrific, terrific record.

And honestly, it's hard to narrow down 2022 to just a song or two as well. You know, you could go with one of the songs that kind of permeated the monoculture, like About About Damn Time by Lizzo would make a lot. of sense here. But honestly, I'm going to go with arguably my favorite song from definitely my favorite album. Is this Moona what I want? Yep. Yeah.

I don't know. I guess it's pretty great stuff. Maybe I really need to spend more time. Somebody should have told me about this. Why am I just now finding this out? Phenomenal live band, too. So 2022, as you said, very difficult year to really sum up very quickly. We'd also mention Alex G's Runner. It came out that year. Porridge radios back to the radio from the album

Waterslide Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky. That song came out in 2022. Oh, Noah Kahn's Stick Season, the title cut from that record came out that year as well. So much we could talk about, but we'll go out on this. And until next time, thanks, Stephen. Thank you, Robin. And for NBR music, I'm Robin Hilton.

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