A series of unfair and wildly speculative investigations, critiques and interpretations - exposing the hidden meanings and agendas of overplayed smoooth radio pop songs. You may never hear them the same way again. Featured in "Top 10 Pop Podcasts on the Planet” at feedspot.com Regular segments: Internet Theories, Misheard Lyrics, Listener Comments, and more. Visit https://speakpipe.com/lyrics to record us your own voicemail hot-take on your smooth pop song of suckiness and you could be on a future episode! (you can also email sound files or text to poidadavis@gmail.com if that's easier).
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/peter-davis6
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 23 hours 50 minutes
episode 1: The horror that is GIVE IT UP by KC and the Sunshine Band
For this inaugural episode, I'm joined by Dave, music expert and possible unabomber, as we take a very deep dive into a very shallow pop song, risking severe spinal injury.
"Give it up" has amateurish romance, coercion, status-theft, goitres, parasitic twins, gas-lighting, possessiveness, drooling libido, hobby ideas, the id/ego/super-ego, donuts, Julia Roberts, the films of Richard Curtis, game-players, and basic instincts...
episode 2: UPSIDE DOWN about Diana Ross and Space Oddities
My guest expert contributors this week are Dave and Gillian. We form a three-pronged trident* of cancel-culture and our words-of-woke may skewer any pop song you might have previously enjoyed. You're welcome...
episode 3: Whitney Houston's GREATEST LOVE of Cloning, Spiritual Possession, and Boxing
My guest expert contributors this week are Dave and Lenny, bravely confronting the lyrics of Whitney Houston and "The Greatest Love of All" which features narcissism, sociopaths, self-love-making, living eternally through clones or children, scientific ethics, Whitney versus Mariah, Lord of the Rings, Muhammad Ali, audio-black-face, Saturday morning cartoons, a white lady called Linda, self-help, self-made, haunting your ex and possession, dignity and celebrity magazines, fairy...
episode 4: Starship's WE BUILT THIS CITY ON hoopla, beaver pelts, snakes, hate, and interdimensional accidents
Welcome back from our break. No, that sounds wrong ... if we've been away, surely it's you that should be welcoming us back? ... Thanks, it's lovely to be back here again and you're looking great.
Dave and I have made up for the absence with a bumper 22 minute podcast, and you pretty much need every second of that if you're going to tackle a subject like Starship's much maligned 80s hit...
episode 5: Cyndi Lauper's GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN WITH RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
It's a confession-packed episode, as one should expect when men blithely discuss what women want. Thankfully, there's an appearance by Lenny (sounds like a man's name but she identifies as female) to save it from being an unpalatable sausage-fest of Peter, Dave, and random internet message-board dudes. Also there's surprising depth to be discovered in the lyrics of Cyndi's breakout hit of 1983. Certainly shocked me...
episode 6: Billy Joel's PIANO MAN and other super heroes, super egos and unconvincing bar scenes
It's a listener-driven episode, as Jennifer raises Billy Joel's hit from the early 70s and recalls the uncomfortable "raw sexuality" of his stage performance. Dave's scientific background comes to the fore as he prepares a drink they call "loneliness" and we explore the ultimately tragic or heroic backstory to the song. Should pianists sing in a lounge bar or stay in the background? Did anyone ask for the harmonica? Is it a Gay Bar? We also discuss ableist dwarf-jokes, www.celebheights...
episode 7: Carly Simon's YOU'RE SO VAIN that this song IS about YOU, plus Schrodinger's Cat, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, and odontophobia
We've dipped way back into the early 70s again to assess Carly Simon's break-up revenge hit. It's pretty much all in the title ... plus drunk party guests, fruity accessories, bees, gavotting, fighting a mirror, a self-fulfilling prophecy, horribly-wounded cats, pentium computing, Space Cadet Pinball, clues and insult-puzzles, stir your coffee, narcissistic personality disorder, paranoia, haunting teeth, stalking, and online quizzes...
episode 8: George Michael’s LAST CHRISTMAS I gave you my brooch, my crazy frog, my explosive device, my cheeseburger, and my cynical speech from Trainspotting. A Christmas special.
Wham!!! It’s a bumper Christmas edition. What is LAST CHRISTMAS potentially about? Incest, terrorism, Jeffrey Epstein parties, heart transplants, a cursed brooch and more...
episode 9: Joe Cocker's YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL if you're a mum, backhanded insults, qualifiers, repetition on repeat, memories from the womb, the word moist, Flight of the Conchords, needs vs wants, lighthouses
A short song that has it all, including the Oedipus complex, the Beatles, moisture content, birth experiences, Pavarotti, screaming, lots of sweat, Spice Girls, Genesis, hot mamas, Jessie's and Jimmy's and Stacey's Mom, Hello Fresh meal deliveries, even the sweet lips of Jesus, bad impressions (again), tunnel-boring machines, CHUDs, and remote drones...
episode 10: The Crash Test Dummies' things that make them go Mmm and Ahh, minor childhood traumas and the hyper empathy of men with long hair, the Canadian connection to Alien Abduction, conspiracy, witchcraft
This 1993 song gives focus to so much, including emotional men struggling with their feels (or their apathy) and their words. How can the Smooth music listener contend with the voice of Satan and still get to yoga on time? Childhood mini-traumas. The Ying and Yang of Hair and skin pigments. Canadian contributions to culture and the cinematic climax of Dumb and Dumber. Pretentious use of the word "vignette". Othering. C+C Music Factory and Arsenio Hall. The inertia of hair colour. Biosafety...