The Matt Walsh Show - Matt Walsh Reacts To The Most POPULAR Spotify Songs For The Month Of May

Episode Date: June 1, 2024

Matt Walsh listens to the top 5 overall songs on Spotify for the month of May.   Today's Sponsor:   ExpressVPN - Go to https://expressvpn.com/WALSHYT and find out how you can get 3 months of ExpressVPN free! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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pop culture experts. But I think everyone knows that I stand alone at the Daily Wire as the, and in society, generally speaking, as the foremost expert in pop culture, which is why today I'll be reviewing some popular songs. These are, in fact, the top five most popular songs in the country in the month of May. And this is popular as measured by Spotify plays. So we'll go down the list. We'll take a listen. I'll probably hate all of them. And then I'll say that they suck. And that'll be the video. That's going to be the video for today. That's the video. That's what you're getting. Well, this is going to hurt like a motherfucker. And just so you know how much of an expert I am, I've heard of one of them, but have not heard any of them. And this, by the way, will be news to maybe anyone that's watching this over the age of 45, that this is a disc track. And this is a song that Kendrick Lamar made dissing. And that's what the kids. Making fun of is what that means. The rapper Drake.

So they don't like each other. They're going back and forth with the disses. I don't know anything about the background of this. I have no idea about any of it. Our producer Holly sent me a whole explainer about what this beef is about, and I still don't really know. And it would require me to go deeper into exploring it and figuring out what's happening, and I just don't care that much.

So we'll listen to the song and judge it by its own artistic. merits here it is. him, pole on him, extort shit, bully death throwing him. Say, Drake, I hear you like him young. You better not have a go to sell block one. To any bitch that talk to him and they're in love, just make sure you hide your little sister from them. They tell me chubs, the only one that get your hammy downs and party at the party playing with his nose now. And Baca got a weird case, why is he around? Certified lover boy, certified pedophiles. Okay, probably heard enough of that. stylistically, not bad.

The problem is I have no idea what he's saying. Cinnamon, finem it off, rim, finem, off. I heard pedophile. I heard that. So someone's a certified pedophile. Embarrassing. Allegedly. I don't know who is, I can't even speculate,

because I don't want to get sued myself by getting in the middle of this beef. It seems to me that for a disc track, in order for it to work, we have to know what you're saying. And I also don't understand how a disc track in the first place is not considered really nerdy. Like, it's funny that this is even a thing.

I'm so mad at you. I'm going to make a song about it. I'm going to sing about how mad I am at you. What is this like West Side story? You know, not only do I have to be able to understand the words coming out of your mouth, but I, as someone who has no background knowledge, should still be able to listen to this and come away with it understanding, oh, this is why you don't like Drake. It's not effective.

So I give that a zero out of ten. Let's go to the next one. This one is someone named Tommy Richman, and it's called Million Dollar Baby, which happens to be one of the most overrated Oscar winners of all time. I don't know if this song is about the film, A Million Dollar Baby, but let's listen. Yeah, I got to say, I don't hate it.

I actually like it. I like that song. I don't know what he's, I have no idea what he's saying. I have no clue. Probably saying horrible things. But again, stylistically, melodically, rhythmically, I like it. It's actually my type of music.

I'll really blow your mind here for a second. If my kids heard that song, which they probably never would, they would say, oh, that sounds like the kind of music dad plays in the car. You didn't see that coming. But that's my type of jam right there. It is. I like, it's got a retro kind of old school vibe to it.

I think it's great, I like that. Well, not great, but it's good. It's a good song. I'm gonna find that on Spotify. I will, and I'm gonna put that in my own playlist. I'm feeling the vibe, as the kids would say. I don't know if they say that, but I did. I give that a solid 7.2 at its end.

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Because I just can't take this guy seriously. Post Malone, you just look, why do you look like that? I mean, you look so, it looks so ridiculous. I can't take it seriously. You look like you fell asleep, and there was a toddler in the room with a Sharpie, and the toddler was drawing on you. And so you have to look like that your whole life now. I'll be crying if I look like that too, bro.

That's fucked up what they'd be doing and y'all. And now you're making... Like, I thought this guy was a rapper or something, and now he's making a country song. And the genre crossover thing, you know, I'm cool with that. The song itself is... You know, it's fine. That's why I grade it.

It's fine. If you're in the apartment store or something, or you go to a restaurant, and that song's playing. You don't recoil at it. It's the kind of song that could just play and you wouldn't even notice that it's playing. It's just kind of there.

And so it sounds like 95% of every other country music, country song that's produced these days. But I'm not going to say it's terrible. It's just fine. It's like, all right. That's a solid 5.3 out of 10 on that one. This next one is called A Bar Song by something called Shibuzi. And this one has 100.

186 million plays with a name like that it's that it doesn't sound like the kind of artist that would produce music that I would necessarily like But let's let's find out My baby born and Berkey She's been telling me all night long Gasoline and gross The list goes on to know This nine to five ain't working Why the hell do I work so hard? I can't worry about my problems I

Yeah, can't take them when I'm gone. One, here comes to two to the three to the four. Tell them bring another round, we need plenty more. Two stepping on the table, she don't need a dance floor. Oh, my, good Lord. Someone call me up a double shot of whiskey. They know me and Jay Danes got a history. There's a party downtown near a fish tree.

Everybody at the bargain. Yeah, it's catchy. Who's gonna who's gonna say it's not a catchy song? Is anyone gonna claim it's not a catchy song? I don't hate that one either I actually don't hate it at all now the music video is this is the laziest music video I've ever seen He's not even he's not even dancing. He's not doing anything Is this the whole music video he just stands there like casually lethargically and there's a couple guys in the background and this this is what we do with music videos now Some dirt in your eye back in my day music videos were a big deal you would sit and watch a team You turn on MTV, if you're older, you put on VH1, and you just watch music videos.

They had shows where you'd rank music videos, like the most popular music videos, TRL, they called it. And they put so much effort back in those days into the music videos. Those were the old days. I don't know if he generally does country music, or if this is his first, usually as a rapper, and this is his first foray into country. I don't know. If that comes on and I'm at the saloon, I might head to the floor and do some square dancing to that song. It might happen.

So I'm gonna give that one a 7.4 out of 10. Let's go to the last song, and this is an espresso by somebody named Sabrina Carpenter. Okay, good. I'm glad we finally heard that. Fue. I, because I hate that one. That one I hate. Finally, I found something to hate. Your song? It's awful. I hate it.

And I was starving for something to hate here in this video. And here it is, because I really hated that a lot. a lot. And not even because it's aggressively bad. I mean, it is bad, but it's just so boring and uninteresting and bland. You know, it's like Taylor Swift. It's just like, why does this exist? Why does it have to exist in the world? Has no soul, no heart? Hey, you might say that about some of the other songs we've heard so far. I'm not going to say that Shibuzzi's bar song has a whole lot of soul and heart, but at least has a certain exuberance. You know, there's a certain kind of like exuberance to that song that's just missing here. They should be arrested for that song. I hated it that much. So that's a

zero out of ten. I give that one a zero out of ten. It's the biggest piece of dog shit. And that's it. So those are the most popular songs of the month. I hope you enjoyed the video. The end. USAA knows dynamic duos can save the day, like superheroes and sidekicks or auto and home insurance.

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