{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"What the Lyric! episode 1 - Pop music 2016 to present","description":"    Episode #1 Description   Welcome to \u201cWhat the Lyric?!?\u201d In this episode, we bring our favorite bad lyrics from Pop Music (c. 2016-2019). One song from an artist who desperately wants to fix her \u201cReputation\u201d with some cringe-y spoken-word lyrics. And another from a Brit whose time would best be spent learning to \u201clet go\u201d of the booze.   Transcript of Episode #1   Becky: Welcome to What the Lyric?!? -- the podcast that confirms...yeah, that actually made it to radio.   Matt: Is it recording?   Becky: Oh now we\u2019re recording. Oh fun!   Matt: Oh yay!   Becky: Hello everybody and welcome to What the Lyric?!? where we talk about how much we love awful, awful lyrics. A little bit about me: I\u2019m Becky. I will listen to anything once, and over and over again if it\u2019s really bad. And then there\u2019s Matthew over here, my partner in crime\u2026   Matt: You know, honestly, if you had to summarize my musical tastes, the best way to look at it would be to say that my go-to karaoke song is \u201cPromiscuous\u201d by Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland.   Becky: So you know we have good taste. That goes without saying. How this whole podcast is going to work is...We have one song each that {...} we get to pick off the theme of the episode. Today\u2019s theme is Pop Music from 2016 to 2019. We get to do a dramatic reading, and after the dramatic reading, we talk about why the lyrics are SO bad and why we had to call it out. All right, so starting first is...Matthew.   Matt: Okay.   Becky: Get ready.   Matt: Definitely get ready for this. So I chose a song...just to give you a little context for this: it comes from, I believe, August of 2017. So put yourself in that state of mind. It\u2019s a year after the election; things are terrible...still.   Becky: I was probably high.   Matt: I mean, weren\u2019t we all?   Becky: Yeah.   Matt: It is Seattle.   Becky: You\u2019d have to be.   Matt: And so this person has decided to reshape their image and, you know, I\u2019ll just let the lyrics speak for themselves:   \u201cI don\u2019t like your little games Don\u2019t like your tilted stage The role you made me play Of the fool, no, I don\u2019t like you I don\u2019t like your perfect crime How you laugh when you lie You said the gun was mine Isn\u2019t cool, no, I don\u2019t like you (oh!)\u201d   Matt: And that\u2019s the first stanza.   Becky: Okay, so I\u2019m guessing\u2026 Who\u2019d be packing heat in 2017, you said? August?   Matt: Uh huh. Changing the image!   Becky: Could be\u2026 Oh! Changing the image? Only because of the changing image thing, that would be Taylor Swift?   Matt: Correct.   Becky: Oh the Swifties.   Matt: But do you...do you know the song?   Becky: Oh Jesus! Is it that...It\u2019s the one where she then breaks it down and says, \u201cOh, Taylor Swift isn\u2019t here right now. Because she\u2019s dead!\u201d Something along those lines? *Laughs*   Matt: This would be \u201cLook What You Made Me Do\u201d by Taylor Swift.   Becky: Oh yes. *Repeats the phrase \u201cLook What You Made Me Do\u201d twice.* Or however the rest goes.   Matt: Exactly. And really, my choice for all of the songs in this podcast are based on what I like to call \u201cCringecore.\u201d   Becky: I love that. We are going to copyright that.   Matt: *Laughs* Really any songs that have lyrics that [make you go] \u201cOh!\u201d You\u2019ve heard of cringe comedy; that\u2019s kind of how I view these lyrics.   Becky: I like it.   Matt: And specifically the -- what makes this so cringey is what you already mentioned, the, let\u2019s find it\u2026\u201dI\u2019m sorry the old Taylor can\u2019t come to the phone right now\u201d set to the background music of, \u201cOoh, look what you made me do.\u201d \u201cWhy?\u201d \u201cOh \u2018cause she\u2019s dead! Becky: The old Taylor is, like, what? 23? 24? I mean, she\u2019s not old.   Matt: She\u2019s got a guitar. I mean, her\u2026   Becky: She\u2019s country. Country Taylor.   Matt: She\u2019s Country-Pop.   Becky: Yeah.   Matt: Don\u2019t you remember when it was just a love song, baby?   Becky: Oh man. Oh God. Ohh...Getting a little gag reflex going.   Matt: And don\u2019t forget the \u201cI knew you were trouble.\u201d   Becky: Oh is that the one with the turtle sex noise meme?  *Laughs*   Matt: *Laughs* That is exactly what that is. *Laughs*   Becky: My favorite ever!   Matt: So really Taylor...I had a lot of options, just based on Taylor, but I have to admit, the lyrics are just...a mess. Let\u2019s keep it going. I mean, we\u2019ve already heard the first stanza.   Becky: Oh yeah.   Matt: But then she continues to say she doesn\u2019t like being the fool, but \u201c[she] got smarter, [she] got harder in the nick of time.\u201d   Becky: How does one get harder when they\u2019re carrying their cat around everywhere? I see a lot of photos of her with her cat. Don\u2019t get me wrong, [I\u2019m a] crazy cat lady, but I\u2019m not taking Kink with me...My cat\u2019s name is Kinky Disco. I\u2019m not taking Kink with me to the grocery store, to the gym...Okay, I don\u2019t go to the gym, but like, I\u2019m not taking her out on a night on the town.   Matt: Unlike Taylor Swift, which I will also say I find it interesting that for a woman whose last name is Swift, she didn\u2019t choose \u201cfaster\u201d for the lyric. Like, that would have made AS much sense\u2026 \u201cBut I got smarter, I got faster in the nick of time.\u201d Okay! I\u2019ll still take that!   Becky: She got badder? I\u2019ve never heard her swear! I\u2019ve never seen her not smile.   Matt: She doesn\u2019t swear in this song either. The real question, and we can answer this question at the end of the analysis, but what, what, WHAT did we make her do? I\u2019m just very curious.   Becky: Maybe make her carry a cat around all the time. *Laughs*   Matt: *Laughs* We did this to ourselves.   Becky: Maybe she has to date all these DJs. Maybe we forced that on her with our expectations of her music and turtle sex noises.   Matt: And her Starbucks lovers!   Becky: Oh God, that\u2019s right.   Matt: \u201cBut honey, I rose up from the dead. I do it all the time.\u201d Necromancer, interesting. \u201cI\u2019ve got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined. I check it once, then I check it twice. Oh.\u201d   Becky: Wait, what does that mean? What are you doing? You checked it. Yup, still there.   Matt: Based on the lyrics alone, we have realized that she has gotten harder in the nick of time and also, presumably, become an elf of the Santa variety. She\u2019s making lists; she\u2019s checking them twice. Don\u2019t know why she\u2019s using a red pen.   Becky: Well it is festive. Red -- Christmas-y. Becky: See I can\u2019t get past the \u201chard\u201d part. She\u2019s not like, all of a sudden, turned to Nicki Minaj-hard. Or like, back in the day, Lil Kim hard.   Matt: She\u2019s not going to be Beyonce carrying around a baseball bat, breaking windows.   Becky: No, but she did bust out the band, the marching band.   Matt: Oh we can always get into that!   Becky: I saw that! I saw that!   Matt: But if that\u2019s the case, then she still did not get harder in the nick of time because she\u2019s still following Beyonce.   Becky: Yeah. And pink isn\u2019t really a \u201chard\u201d color for me. Like, it\u2019s not a color I go, \u201cOh! I see Notorious B.I.G. is wearing pink. He\u2019s hard.\u201d That isn\u2019t why I would have classified him as hard. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen B.I.G. [in pink.] Maybe he did? I don\u2019t know; I\u2019d have to go back and look now.   Matt: *Laughs*   Becky: I feel like I\u2019d have to look that up. *Laughs*   Matt: And then really, the rest is chorus, which in case you haven\u2019t realized it, is just: \u201cOoh, look what you made me do. Look what you made me do. Look what you made me do. Look what you just made me...OOH, Look what\u2026\u201d Okay, I think we\u2019ve got the idea.   Becky: I feel like someone got lazy. I feel like that happens a lot in lyrics. And that\u2019s lazy.   Matt: Which part?   Becky: The just repeating the same line over and over and over again.   Matt: Yeah, it\u2019s not a good look. And worse, is the next stanza:   \u201cI don\u2019t like your kingdom keys\u201d Kingdom keys.   Becky: Keys? As in house keys? Car keys?   Matt: Yeah, apparently someone\u2019s got a kingdom.   \u201cThey once belonged to me.\u201d   Becky: Okay.   Matt: Uhhh, questions?   \u201cYou ask me for a place to sleep Locked me out and threw a feast\u201d   And the best part of this is at the very end of the line is, \u201cWhat?!\u201d So even Taylor looked at these lyrics, \u201cLocked me out and threw a feast...WHAT?!\u201d And they just included it.   Becky: Yeah, they said fuck it. It\u2019s Taylor Swift; it\u2019s going to be huge. That\u2019s exactly how it happened.   Matt: And ultimately, it was.   Becky: I know!   Matt: \u201cThe world moves on, another day, another drama, drama But not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma And then the world moves on, but one thing\u2019s for sure (sure) Maybe I got mine, but you\u2019ll all get yours.\u201d   Becky: All of a sudden we\u2019ve gone from one person to all?   Matt: Oh yeah. So whoever took her kingdom keys apparently stole her keys, stole her kingdom and was like, \u201cNo bitch, you don\u2019t live here anymore.\u201d   Becky: Could kingdom keys *laughs* be a metaphor for virginity, here?   Matt: But then which one? Which one of the Starbucks lovers is guilty of that.   Becky: *Laughs* I wish I had kids so that I could be like, \u201cKids, keep your kingdom keys as long as you can. Just lock them away.\u201d   Matt: \u201cYour chastity belts won\u2019t rust. Don\u2019t worry.\u201d   Becky: \u201cJust keep those kingdom keys to yourself and be sure to give them to the right person.\u201d   Matt: Abstinence-only education.   Becky: \u201cAnd if you are going to give them away, just keep them protected.\u201d   Matt: Just keep them on a carabiner. Becky: *Laughs* Those Schneider keys that had the chain you could just pull and snap back.   Matt: Exactly!   Becky: Keep them safe. You\u2019ve got to know where they are at all times.   Matt: Taylor did not follow that advice. She is thinking about karma apparently. She\u2019s not going to do anything about how angry she is, which again really contradicts the meaning of the song.   Becky: The \u201cLook what you made me do\u201d!   Matt: Exactly. She\u2019s like, \u201cOh karma will take care of it. I won\u2019t do anything about it except sulk.\u201d   Becky: I\u2019m going to sit and just bitch about it.   Matt: Yeah. And honestly, the rest of the song. A) It goes back to, \u201cI got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time.\u201d Return to that and then another amazing chorus of \u201cLook what you made me do.\u201d And the final, original set of lyrics is:   \u201cI don\u2019t trust nobody and nobody trusts me. I\u2019ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams. I don\u2019t trust nobody and nobody trusts me. I\u2019ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams.\u201d   And it just repeats until it transitions flawlessly into \u201cOoh, look what you made me do.\u201d   Becky: Taylor. Taylor, I get that you\u2019re young, probably started partying, started drinking a little bit and that\u2019s where this came from, maybe. I don\u2019t know.   Matt: Girl\u2019s nearly in her 30s.   Becky: Yeah, I don\u2019t get it.   Matt: Britney had a weird stage; I\u2019ll allow Taylor one, but this was a\u2026   Becky: Britney had a good one because she shaved her head.   Matt: *Laughs* She put on a show!   Becky: *Laughs* She is a showman through and through. Like, she shaved her head, tried to attack somebody with an umbrella\u2026   Matt: I don\u2019t remember the umbrella\u2026 Becky: Oh yeah, that was after she shaved her head. I think she went for somebody\u2019s car window because they were taking photos of her in the car, so she went for that. Yeah. That\u2019s a good photo to look up. It\u2019s priceless.   Matt: That\u2019s the next segment.   Becky: Yeah, that\u2019s the second podcast. Photos of people going crazy.   Matt: That\u2019s the first one!   Becky: Okay, so I think, universally, this song is incredibly awful. I think we can both agree.   Matt: Do we have a rating for this?   Becky: I would say she\u2019s mild. Like, on a scale of 1 to 5 -- like, 5-star spicy crappy lyrics -- she\u2019s probably right in the middle there.   Matt: I am inclined to agree.   Becky: It\u2019s like a 3-4.   Matt: Right. It depends on your own taste buds, your ethnicity. Certainly when it comes to this song.   Becky: Oh god, yeah.   Matt: Honestly, on a scale of 1 to 5 yikes, I\u2019m inclined to give it a 3. What nudges it toward 4 is the spoken lyrics...   Becky: Yeah.   Matt: \u201cThe old Taylor can\u2019t come to the phone right now.\u201d \u201cWhy?\u201d \u201c\u2018Cause she\u2019s dead.\u201d And then I just hear the teenager in me slam the door and yell, \u201cYou\u2019re not my real mom and you never will be!\u201d   Becky: *Laughs* I will say, also, [those lyrics are] my favorite part of the song.   Matt: It\u2019s only the original part of the song!   Becky: It really is! It really is. That\u2019s like her acting out. And you\u2019re like, \u201cOh. Ohh. Taylor got edge.\u201d   Matt: To be honest, what would have kept it at a 3, if they would have just deleted the spoken word portion. This would have been a goth \u201cCall Me Maybe.\u201d   Becky: Yeah. Ooh, yes! I like that. I agree with you on that one. So we\u2019re going a solid 3 to 4 yikes on the awful lyrics scale.   Matt: I am inclined to agree. It\u2019s not the worst. It\u2019s certainly not the best lyrics.   Becky: It\u2019s definitely not. *Noise of a truck* Sorry for the trucks in the background, people! This is what happens when you record in an old building. Alright, so mine...Honestly, I don\u2019t know when it came out. This song is the reason this podcast is existing because my coworker heard me bashing these lyrics and said, \u201cOh my god, please record this.\u201d So Ellen, here you go!   Oh God, how do I do this? Okay:   \u201cI met you in the dark, you lit me up You made me feel as though I was enough We danced the night away, we drank too much I held your hair back when You were throwing up   Then you smiled over your shoulder For a minute, I was stone-cold sober I pulled you closer to my chest And you asked me to stay over I said, I already told ya I think that you should get some rest\u201d   Becky: And then it goes into the chorus. Go ahead, see if you can guess this one. Yeah.   Matt: I\u2019m going to need some more lyrics.   Becky: I\u2019m going to go into the chorus right now:   \u201cI knew I loved you then But you'd never know 'Cause I played it cool when I was scared of letting go I know I needed you But I never showed But I wanna\u2026\u201d   Becky: I can\u2019t even get to this part without laughing.   \u201cBut I wanna stay with you until we're grey and old Just say you won't let go Just say you won't let go\u201d   Becky: ...Which is the name of the song.   Matt: Ohhhh my God.   Becky: That is James Arthur\u2019s \u201cSay You Won\u2019t Let Go.\u201d Now James Arthur, if I remember correctly won, like, X Factor, which is a British TV show like\u2026   Matt: America\u2019s Got Talent?   Becky: Yeah! I think it\u2019s something similar.   Matt: Are there buttons?   Becky: There are people who are guest judges or whatnot. I think it might just be music, so it\u2019d be like an American Idol situation. And [this song] is one of the more popular wedding songs, which I find offensive.   Matt: Oh no.   Becky: Yes! Yes, this is played at weddings. People pick this as their wedding song. So I\u2019m going to go ahead and we\u2019re just going to start again. So he starts with:   \u201cI met you in the dark, you lit me up You made me feel as though I was enough\u201d   Sweet enough sentiment. Right?   Matt: I will say it sounds like they\u2019re both getting high at a party, which I\u2019m just like, \u201cOh okay.\u201d   Becky: They\u2019re young. They can do that. I mean, I don\u2019t remember the last time we\u2019d dance the night away. Here\u2019s where I start to have some issues with this being at all a good song and even a wedding song, where he says:   \u201cI held your hair back when You were throwing up\u201d   Now, there\u2019s so many things here for me. You just met her and now you\u2019re holding her hair back. While she\u2019s puking.   Matt: Wow.   Becky: Do you want to be with a girl who can\u2019t handle her booze is my number one question. *Laughs* Like, is that a thing?   Matt: I mean, I have to hand it to him. I can definitely see a couple of things wrong with the dating culture. Number one -- women who look at this song and think, \u201cYou know what? I\u2019m just looking for a man who\u2019s going to hold my hair back 30 minutes after I\u2019ve met him.\u201d   Becky: She\u2019s gotten to that point. It\u2019s like in Singles where she\u2019s like, I was looking for all these things, and now I\u2019m just looking for a man who says \u201cGod bless you\u201d instead of \u201cGesundheit\u201d when they sneeze. That\u2019s where she\u2019s at.   Matt: I mean, it\u2019s a pretty low threshold.   Becky: Yeah.   Matt: But I also think it\u2019s very much a critique on straight men who are like -- there\u2019s no such thing as a red flag to me. She\u2019s vomiting in a toilet? I bet I could get laid tonight!   Becky: She is so beyond her means; if anything, we\u2019re going in for the kill. Okay, so now it says:   \u201cYou smiled over your shoulder\u201d   Becky: All I can picture at this point is puke-face, which is puke stuck in the teeth, her make-up is now down around her cheeks, she\u2019s got raccoon-face. She is that girl at the end of the night who is missing a shoe. And is holding the other one in somebody else\u2019s shoe in her hand. Her purse is open; shit spilling out all over the place. That\u2019s the girl I\u2019m picturing, and you\u2019re like\u2026\u201dYeah.\u201d   Matt: Say you won\u2019t let go!   Becky: *Laughs* This is the girl for me. Forever. No. No, I can\u2019t...And a wedding song! I\u2019m going to keep saying this. This is a wedding song. People pick this for their freaking wedding.   Matt: See, what I love about that is that it explicitly gives the couple permission to drink too much, to dance the night away. And THEN, as she\u2019s puking, he\u2019s going to be like, \u201cIt\u2019s like the first night we met!\u201d *Laughs*   Becky: Open bar at this wedding! Very clearly. We\u2019re not going to have food, just booze because we\u2019re going to relive our first night. I can\u2019t. And then he says:   \u201cFor a minute, I was stone-cold sober\u201d   Becky: Now, when you sobered up for that second, did you go, \u201cWhat the fuck am I doing?\u201d Because that\u2019s [when] I would have gone, \u201cWhat am I doing? Why? This girl is puking and I\u2019m holding her hair back and that\u2019s the girl I think\u2026\u201d   But then he went, \u201cNope! We\u2019re good. I don\u2019t know what that was about. I\u2019m pushing that to the back. Pushing it to the back. That is not a red flag in any way.\u201d I don\u2019t get it. And clearly, puke-face is a turn-on for this guy because then he pulls her close.   Matt: He\u2019s got a thing.   Becky: *Gagging noises* It\u2019s giving me the gag reflex thinking about it. Then he says:   \u201cAnd you asked me to stay over I said, I already told ya\u201d   Classy. He\u2019s good.   Matt: Wow.   Becky: Yeah:   \u201cI said, I already told ya I think that you should get some rest\u201d   Becky: Now I\u2019m not sure if he\u2019s just being nice because she just lost the contents of her entire stomach in front of him and he doesn\u2019t want to embarrass her any more or he\u2019s like, \u201cI\u2019m going to go in for the kill even though I said \u2018Let\u2019s just get some rest.\u2019\u201d   Matt: He\u2019s closing the deal. Honestly, if he cared, he\u2019d be like, \u201cWe\u2019re going to get you some water and medical attention.\u201d   Becky: This is a \u201cMe Too\u201d movement issue.   Matt: Yeah, a #MeToo moment.   Becky: And then he goes on: \u201cI knew I loved you then.\u201d Got to be a fetish. Like, puke-face fetish. I don\u2019t know. Not anything I go for. \u201cBut you\u2019d never know.\u201d Yeah because she\u2019s black-out drunk. Who remembers during black-out drunk-ness? And then he says: 'Cause I played it cool when I was scared of letting go.\u201d Yeah because she could die of alcohol poisoning. *Laughs* There could possibly be a death that your fingerprints are on the body now.   Matt: He\u2019s scared of letting go and yet, at no point does he think, \u201cYou know, there are medical professionals who are paid to take care of this.\u201d Becky: Yeah, maybe urgent care. That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying.   Matt: She deserves better at this point.   Becky: Yeah, and then he goes into, \u201cI know I needed you.\u201d More like she needed you rather than the other way around?   Matt: Yeah, she needed you in the same sense that she needed to be hydrated.   Becky: Yeah, maybe needed to be told, \u201cMaybe not that last drink.\u201d   Matt: Exactly. And this is going to be a bad decision.   Becky: Stop spinning while you\u2019re dancing. Doing that little spinny-dance. That hippie dance thing. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t dance. I have no idea what the kids do these days. So then we go into the he wants to stay with her when she\u2019s gray and old.   When you\u2019re gray and old and you\u2019re still puking into a toilet, holding her hair back. That\u2019s old.   Matt: My brain went the opposite direction. Of course he\u2019s excited for her to get gray and old because then all sorts of bodily functions go haywire. He definitely has a kink for this.   Becky: He\u2019s waiting for the diaper stage.   Matt: Yep. 100%.   Becky: So then we get to the next bit:   \u201cI'll wake you up with some breakfast in bed I'll bring you coffee with a kiss on your head\u201d   This is an intervention. She\u2019s daydrinking; she\u2019s hungover. That\u2019s what this has to be.   Matt: Too many damn mimosas.   Becky: \u201cAnd I'll take the kids to school.\u201d ...Because Mom\u2019s had too much Mom-juice? What is happening here? Now we\u2019ve established there\u2019s a cycle. There\u2019s a problem. \u201cWave them goodbye.\u201d Because Mommy\u2019s going to rehab and you\u2019re not going to see her for a little while is what I\u2019m getting. I could be wrong. \u201cAnd I'll thank my lucky stars for that night.\u201d The puke night? You\u2019re thanking your stars because now you are having to take over care -- ALL the care of your kids -- because your wife can\u2019t get out of bed because she\u2019s been day-drinking and going on the Mom-juice.   Matt: Alright, two things. Well, actually, two kinks really come out of this. Number one, he definitely has a thing for girls who are messes. Like, full-on messes. Number two, the dude was playing long-game. If I can get with an alcoholic woman, enable it\u2026   Becky: There will be diapers sooner [rather] than later!   Matt: Exactly. *Laughs* And I cannot wait to get custody of the kids who don\u2019t exist yet. So...interesting, James Arthur.   Becky: Maybe that\u2019s all he wanted was kids. And he just needed some drunk, crazy lady that would believe anything he said to her just to get those kids.   Matt: I hate to say it, but I know a fair number of straight women who, if a dude held their hair back, they\u2019d be like, \u201cAw, he\u2019s got a caring, tender soul.\u201d   Becky: Yeah, I probably would have said that in my twenties. I\u2019m also 45 now, so I\u2019m like, \u201cThere\u2019s something wrong with this guy.\u201d   Matt: That\u2019s because it\u2019s amazing when you get out of your twenties...the clarity through which you can see the world!   Becky: Oh my God, yeah. Okay, so then we go back into the whole, \u201cWhen you looked over your shoulder. For a minute, I forget that I'm older.\u201d And here\u2019s where I become an asshole for picking this song because the next line is, \u201cBecause you\u2019ve been too busy hiding her alcoholism from the family.\u201d The song\u2019s about alcoholism! People are playing this for weddings! Again, top wedding song -- alcoholism is mentioned in the lyrics.   Matt: Wait, repeat that exact lyric.   Becky: \u201cBecause you\u2019ve been too busy hiding her alcoholism from the family.\u201d   Matt: Wait, who is? He is?   Becky: He is. His whole little stanza is:   \u201cWhen you looked over your shoulder For a minute, I forgot that I'm older Too busy hiding her alcoholism from the family.\u201d   Matt: This took a turn\u2026   Becky: I know! I\u2019ve never gotten past the first stanza where he\u2019s holding her hair and she\u2019s puking. No idea that they would all of a sudden mention alcoholism. THEY MENTION ALCOHOLISM. How is this a wedding song? You people have got to listen past the first stanza. And then it goes into, \u201cI wanna dance with you right now.\u201d I\u2019m assuming now because shouldn\u2019t she be in rehab? And then, \u201cOh, and you look as beautiful as ever. And I swear that everyday'll get better.\u201d Everyday\u2019ll. That\u2019s everyday, apostrophe, L, L. Get better. \u201cYou make me feel this way somehow.\u201d I don\u2019t know. What would that way be? Afraid of drinking?   \u201cI'm so in love with you And I hope you know Darling your love is more than worth its weight in gold.\u201d   Now we\u2019ve just completely gone past the alcoholism. That was just a little blip. Just a little mention.   Matt: Just going to drop that in as a reminder.   Becky: Yeah. Then this one gets me, \u201cI wanna live with you\/Even when we're ghosts.\u201d Really?   Matt: That\u2019s eternity.   Becky: That\u2019s really...no.   Matt: I have yet to meet a single person in my living life who I would want to spend an actual eternity with.   Becky: I don\u2019t want to spend that much time with my cat.   Matt: Ah! But see, that is the precise lyric that made that a wedding song.   Becky: Yeah. OR \u201cI'm gonna love you till\/My lungs give out.\u201d Till my lungs give out?   Matt: But then he just literally contradicts what he\u2019s just saying. He\u2019s like, \u201cI\u2019m going to\u2026\u201d What?   Becky: Be with you even when we\u2019re ghosts. But now it\u2019s just till my lungs give out. He backed it up a bit. He was like, \u201cOoh\u2026\u201d   Matt: There was a rug that he pulled out from underneath her, which is that he doesn\u2019t believe in ghosts.   Becky: OR he\u2019s thinking he\u2019s got a better shot in the afterlife of hooking up with, like, Anna Nicole Smith or something.   Matt: I\u2019m guessing. But no one says what Anna Nicole Smith looks like after she died. What form of Anna Nicole? Becky: He\u2019s thinking ahead. FAR ahead since he cut it back down to just till my lungs give out. \u201cI promise till death we part like in our vows\u201d?   Matt: Yikes. That\u2019s just poor sentence construction.   Becky: Well, again, this song is about alcoholism and it\u2019s a top 10 wedding song.   Matt: That\u2019s a winner.   Becky: I think it\u2019s a top 10 wedding song mainly because he\u2019s British and the Brits do love their booze. *Laughs* So I\u2019m sure it hits home with a lot of Brits.   Matt: I\u2019m going to give you the win on this one. It was never a competition. I\u2019m giving you the win. That is a clusterfuck of a song.   Becky: That TOP hit...I don\u2019t even know what it topped at, but it\u2019s up there. Not only that...WEDDING SONG.   Matt: First of all, he didn\u2019t just have a thing for ladies who were messes, he then also proceeds to move forward with it to be like, \u201cYou know what I really love about you? How you hide your debilitating substance use from your family. That\u2019s a major turn-on for me.\u201d   Becky: See? He gave us a little hint in the beginning, and we\u2019re all like, \u201cThis guy\u2019s just an idiot. They\u2019re just young.\u201d And then it\u2019s, \u201cOh shit. They\u2019re alcoholics.\u201d   Matt: She\u2019s got a problem! And then it should have just been, \u201cI\u2019ll love you until we\u2019re ghosts, which will be soon because your liver won\u2019t last much longer.\u201d   Becky: Because cirrhosis is bad. I say this is right up there. I say this is a 4.5 on the yikes scale for me.   Matt: I was precisely thinking somewhere between 4 to 4.5, but I will give it credit. There\u2019s no way it\u2019s going to be a 5, only because there was an emotional journey there.   Becky: There was. He took you on a little bit of a ride, albeit a crazy rollercoaster of alcoholism clusterfucks.   Matt: I don\u2019t think I would have ever..No, no no. AMENDMENT: I would have never guessed there was an actual major pop song that had the word alcoholism in it.   Becky: Now I feel like I\u2019ve got to look it up, but he was up there. I can\u2019t remember where it was, but it played a lot, and I was like, did anyone actually listen to these lyrics before it went anywhere outside of the recording studio?   Matt: I think they saw it and thought to themselves, \u201cOh my God -- the UK -- this is going to be relatable.\u201d   Becky: *Laughs* These people drink like fish and they are going to love this song. Alright, let\u2019s see if I can find it...where did this damn song hit. I can\u2019t believe this song about alcoholism made the charts. Let\u2019s see, Brit Awards...Video of the Year and Single of the Year in 2017. Also, Oh thank God, it wasn\u2019t for Teen Choice Awards. Thank goodness!  He also won American New Artist of the Year that year!   Matt: No. This is #MeToo moment. First of all it was a #MeToo moment and then, following that, was alcoholism and neglect?   Becky: Peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. In May 2018, it was reported that The Script, also another classic band, had launched legal proceedings against him due to alleged copyright infringement in regards to this song.   Matt & Becky: OHH!   Becky: It just got ugly.   Matt: Although now I\u2019m intrigued at the title because...does the title, \u201cSay You Won\u2019t Let Go\u201d refer to\u2026   Becky: The booze?   Matt: ...a Jameson bottle? Or James Arthur?   Becky: I\u2019d go with the bottle of booze. *Laughs*   Matt: I think she\u2019s certainly loving that!   Becky: THAT is good when you\u2019re a ghost.   Matt: You know what pairs best with cirrhosis? Jameson. Informal plug.   Becky: Jameson if you would like to sponsor us\u2026   Matt: Please let us know!   Becky: Please!   Matt: Please get us out of this studio.   Becky: This studio is hot and there\u2019s guns a-blazin\u2019 probably somewhere in Seattle right now. Okay everybody, thanks so much for listening. Please join us next time when we take a peak at the riveting lyrics of songs from the \u201890s. That\u2019s right. I\u2019m Becky.   Matt: I\u2019m Matt.   Becky: And this was\u2026   Becky & Matt: WHAT THE LYRIC?!? ","author_name":"What the Lyric","author_url":"http:\/\/www.whatthelyric.com","html":"