Sounds Fake But Okay

Ep 130: Reclaiming Romantic Songs

May 03, 2020 Sounds Fake But Okay
Sounds Fake But Okay
Ep 130: Reclaiming Romantic Songs
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Hey what's up hello! This week, we talk about classic romantic/sexual songs like My Heart Will Go On and Careless Whisper. Can these songs be reclaimed as aromantic and asexual anthems? Honestly, who knows.   

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SARAH: Hey, what's up? Hello. Welcome to Sounds Fake, But Okay a podcast where an aro-ace girl, I’m Sarah, that's me. 

KAYLA: And a demi-straight girl that's me Kayla 

SARAH: Talk about all things to do with love, relationships, sexuality, and pretty much anything else we just don't understand 

KAYLA: On today's episode, platonic songs 

BOTH: Sounds Fake But Okay 

[Intro Music] 

SARAH: Welcome back to the pod 

KAYLA: M’ahoney 

SARAH: Oh 

KAYLA: That's something that one of my villagers on Animal Crossing says 

SARAH: Mm. It's fun, okay. On that note when this episode airs we will have already done our live stream 

KAYLA: True 

SARAH: So, if you weren't there for it, you can watch it on our YouTube channel and if you were there for it, you can watch it again and the fundraiser will still be open through Saturday May 9th, which is Kayla's birthday 

KAYLA: My birthday 

SARAH: So, you're welcome to continue donating to that. I hope we met our goal. I have no idea; this is the future… 

KAYLA: I hope it went well

SARAH: I can’t tell 

KAYLA: What if it was like really bad, we're going to have to edit all of this out 

SARAH: Nope, we won't, we'll leave it. 

KAYLA: Oh, how awkward that will be?

SARAH: Um, I hope you enjoyed it. I hope we enjoyed it. I hope everyone enjoyed it. Thank you for participating and thank you for the enthusiasm of everyone even before it has happened, it has been wonderful, so. 

KAYLA: Yes 

SARAH: Hey Kayla. 

KAYLA: Yes, that's me 

SARAH: What are we talking about this week? 

KAYLA: Um this week I’m not exactly sure because yet again Sarah does the topics usually but from what I understand is we are taking a look at some romance songs and then saying no, no, these are mine now and reclaiming them for ourselves 

SARAH: Correct. This episode is all about allo songs for aro-ace reclamation 

KAYLA: See and so I didn't get specific instructions on this so I don't know that the things I wrote down are exactly what Sarah was looking for but they are what I have 

SARAH: It'll add some spice to the conversation. When I pitched this to Kayla… I actually thought of this idea a couple of weeks ago but I like needed some time to like think about the songs to do 

KAYLA: Whereas, I got two days to think about it 

SARAH: I did most of them in the past two days but it was just like we were recording that day and I was like, I’m not ready to do this today. 

KAYLA: That’s right

SARAH: Um, but I was like when I pitched this I was like this will be like three like kind of silly episodes in a row so… Because we try not to do like… we try not to do too long of stretches of like super serious episodes, super silly episodes and Kayla was like, you know what people need silly so that's what you get

KAYLA: Everyone needs a silly right now 

SARAH: It's what you get 

KAYLA: You get a silly 

SARAH: Okay. So, I’m just going to dive in. I was actually pretty picky about this. So, like I’m looking at songs that are seen as traditionally like songs about romance or romantic sexual love, you know relationships, marriage that sort of thing and I’m looking at them and I’m saying which one of these could still apply to aro-ace people like some of them like they're like famously love songs, but if you look at the lyrics they're not inherently romantic love songs. 

KAYLA: Yes

SARAH: And so, I’m looking at the songs that we can just take back and say bitch, this is ours, too 

KAYLA: But about something else 

SARAH: Yeah. Um, and I… as I said, I was pretty picky with this um…

KAYLA: I was not because I suddenly couldn't think of a single love song 

SARAH: I did a lot of googling. 

KAYLA: Yeah, I did a like a top 10. We might have some very similar songs 

SARAH: Well, we'll see maybe you might have some of my rejects 

KAYLA: Oh, how awful I will feel 

SARAH: Um But I was still able to come up with a good handful um, so we're going to start I have a warm-up section which are just some like obvious choices um the first one… 

KAYLA: You're always perpetually so much more prepared than me 

SARAH: Listen, these things get into my brain and then I can't… 

KAYLA: This is… the content lady

SARAH: I can't stop thinking about them until I have…

KAYLA: And I do other things, you know? 

SARAH: Yes. Yes, um okay, first one Love Song by Sarah Bareilles. 

KAYLA: Oh, that was one of mine 

SARAH: It's not even really a love song and it kept coming up on these lists of like famous love songs and I’m like bitch the whole point of this song is she's refusing to write a love song. How aro-spec is that? 

KAYLA: Aro-spec? That's a fun word. I had that down too because like the actual story of that song is that her producers or whatever? Were like you need to write us some more songs and they should be love songs because that's what the people want and she was like fuck you. I don't want to 

SARAH: Right, and it's like people are like, oh it's called love song, so it's a famous love song and it's like no the… listen to the lyrics it is not

KAYLA: She literally says like I don't want to 

SARAH: The lyrics are I’m not going to write you a love song because you asked for it because you need one 

KAYLA: She doesn't want it 

SARAH: That's the chorus 

KAYLA: I remember that music video so vividly 

SARAH: Me too 

KAYLA: I feel like it was one of those first music videos that I like sat on the home computer in the computer room and watched 

SARAH: Yeah, no, I remember that pretty clearly as well, I’m glad we're on the same page there 

KAYLA: Oh, what's the other… now I’m thinking of the other song that I remember very vividly and I feel like it could…

SARAH: Bad Day by Daniel Pally? 

KAYLA: Yes. Yes, with the whiteboard 

SARAH: Yeah, like the window? 

KAYLA: Yeah. Yeah. I wow. Yes. 

SARAH: Yeah. I had that music video on my iPod nano. 

KAYLA: I… me and my sister watched it constantly. That's so funny. Okay. Anyway 

SARAH: So glad that I was able to just come up with that on the spot. Okay. 

KAYLA: Yes. 

SARAH: Um, the next obvious choice is Friends by Anne Marie. We've talked about this song before it's literally about friends owning someone 

KAYLA: Oh, yes 

SARAH: So aro, why would you even claim that that's a love because it's your romantic love is being rejected so why would you say that's even relationship no, this is a… That song is ours just so you know

KAYLA: Thank you 

SARAH: Okay, the next one, is a song called Better By Myself by Hey Violet, I actually saw Hey Violet live once because they were opening for Five Seconds of Summer like a long long time ago. Anyway, this song just like keeps coming up… I’ve never listened to it on purpose, but it keeps coming up on like the like related songs on Spotify like I’ll listen to like a playlist or like album or whatever and it's like I’m going to give you things that are similar to this and this has come up multiple times for some reason um it's a whole song about how being single is better than being in a relationship 

KAYLA: So, these are not love songs that you're giving me? 

SARAH: These are the three warm-ups

KAYLA: Okay 

SARAH: These are the ones that are obvious choices, Kayla. 

KAYLA: Okay. Okay

SARAH: Okay? We're going to get there I have some hot takes later on, don't worry. 

KAYLA: Oh my 

SARAH: But these were just the ones that I was like people would claim these are love songs or they're like breakup songs but really they're about how like bitch fuck you 

KAYLA: True 

SARAH: Fuck you love, fuck you breakups 

KAYLA: Like the song by Will Jay, Never Been In Love 

SARAH: Sure, I don't know that song. 

KAYLA: Yes, you do. We've talked about it before 

SARAH: Okay. Oh, I know that song. 

KAYLA: Yep. Okay 

SARAH: Um, all right, so now that we've done our warm-ups, all right, this next header, which is the rest of them just says now let's get crazy. 

KAYLA: Oh, my see I don't have any headers on my list 

SARAH: Yeah, I’ve got some headers, um okay, first one Your Song by Elton John. 

KAYLA: I also have that 

SARAH: Could be totally platonic. 

KAYLA: I think also what I just thought of very familial 

SARAH: Yeah 

KAYLA: Because, listen I have several thoughts on this but the familial one if I… “I don't have much money but boy if I did I’d buy a big house where we both could live” that's just like a mom and her kid probably 

SARAH: Yeah 

KAYLA: Yep 

SARAH: “My gift is my song and this one is for you.” I mean any kind of love could gift someone a song 

KAYLA: Also, they're complimenting the eyes. Do you know how many times I’ve complimented a friend on their eyes? 

SARAH: Have you complimented me on my eyes today? Have you seen my Instagram story? My eyes look great 

KAYLA: Um, your eyes look great 

SARAH: Thank you. 

KAYLA: Okay 

SARAH: It's not relevant to any of our listeners because my Instagram story will be gone by the time you hear this. 

KAYLA: Oh, well

SARAH: But there's nothing in this song that indicates that it is exclusively romantic sexual love at all. 

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KAYLA: The reason I thought of it is a few weeks ago we watched Rocket Man, which is a very very good movie 

SARAH: It slaps 

KAYLA: And uh I mean, I don't know why Bernie, Elton John's songwriting partner, wrote this but like in the movie it like really comes off as like they're very good friends and he like almost wrote it for Elton and was like here I wrote you this song and like you put really beautiful music to it and that's really cool, they're just being like really good bros 

SARAH: Yeah, love some good fucking bros. 

KAYLA: They are bros 

SARAH: All right. My next one is I Want to Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston because I do want to dance with somebody

KAYLA: Mm-hmm 

SARAH: Somebody who loves me

KAYLA: Uh-huh 

SARAH: Never says somebody who's in love with me 

KAYLA: Or somebody who loves me romantically 

SARAH: Yeah, exactly. It's just about fucking dancing 

KAYLA: I think… I mean you don't have to be in love to feel the heat with someone you could just be like in Florida 

SARAH: I uh last summer... 

KAYLA: What if you're going to a daddy daughter dance? In Florida 

SARAH: I jammed to this song at a wedding where it was like 105 degrees and I was dancing with my family 

KAYLA: And so, it met all the criteria 

SARAH: It met all the criteria. The only line that is a… is maybe a problem it says “I’ve been in love and lost my senses” but it's not saying that I am in love right now. Like this isn't about the being in love 

KAYLA: No, it's just saying in the past I’ve been in love and so now I’d like to dance with my dad because I know he'll never hurt me like you did Jeremy 

SARAH: Yeah. “I need a man who'll take the chance on a love that burns hot enough to last,” just fire, fire burns hot 

KAYLA: Mm-hmm. I really think this is a daddy-daughter dance song 

SARAH: I think it's really… it really works. All right, or a father-son dance. 

KAYLA: Sure. 

SARAH: Who the fuck cares? 

KAYLA: Who the fuck cares? 

SARAH: Who the fuck cares? Okay, my next one, this is… this is a bold move. This is my hottest take 

KAYLA: Mm-hmm 

SARAH: Um but I’m going to make a play for Careless Whisper by George Michael 

KAYLA: Is there even any words in that song? 

SARAH: Yes

KAYLA: I cannot… the only… I… I’m sure there are but I feel like the only part of the song I know is the saxophone part 

SARAH: It’s, “I’m never going to dance again.” 

KAYLA: Oh

SARAH: That's that same song. 

KAYLA: Okay 

SARAH: I… Okay. The line in the chorus is “should have known better than to cheat a friend.” It's about a failed friendship, perhaps a dance partnership because never going to dance again, maybe George ditched his last dance partner for a different dance partner and ruined the relationship he had with his first dance partner again just about dancing clearly George he did something wrong he's saying “guilty feet have got no rhythm,” you know, it's clear that George has done something wrong here to hurt this relationship, but it doesn't have to, there's nothing that indicates that it has to be romantic 

KAYLA: I mean that's 

SARAH: “I’m never going to dance again the way I danced with you” 

KAYLA: That's fair, especially if like your dance partner got mad at you and like broke your leg 

SARAH: Right, that'd be horrible 

KAYLA: But it just sounds like such a sexual song 

SARAH: Because you've been… 

KAYLA: It's because of the saxophone 

SARAH: It's because of the saxophone and because it has been ingrained in your head that the saxophone is sexy hot sexy 

KAYLA: Well, no, I mean I see your point but…

SARAH: That's why it's a hot take 

KAYLA: It is hot 

SARAH: It's a spicy take but I think Careless Whisper could just as easily be a platonic song and that's the tea. 

KAYLA: Okay 

SARAH: My next one is a less well-known one, but I was listening to it recently. Um, and it's a bop, I think I’ve actually mentioned it on this podcast before, it's Share Your Address by Ben Platt 

KAYLA: I have a Ben Platt one, but it's not that one

SARAH: Amazing, Share Your Address. Let me read you uh some of… some of the lyrics here 

KAYLA: A very good bop 

SARAH: Yeah, um “I want a key to your house, I want to pick up your clothes, I want to clean up your mess, I want to know where you hide things, I want to be in your photos, I want to share your address” 

KAYLA: I mean, it does sound like a serial killer when you just read it

SARAH: It does, it's… well he acknowledges in the lyrics that some of them are a little bit creepy. 

KAYLA: That's true 

SARAH: There is there is an acknowledgement there. Um “I want to be your emergency contact. You can put me down because you know, I know you best,” I mean, are you kidding? This could be about a QPR 

KAYLA: Mm-hmm 

SARAH: I mean, being someone's emergency contact is something someone in a QPR could do or… 

KAYLA: That's something anyone could do

SARAH: It's a thing anyone could do. I’m trying to remember who I put down as my emergency contact for work

KAYLA: But probably not your parents because they're so far away

SARAH: No, right because they live so far away. I’m pretty sure I put my roommate 

KAYLA: That would make sense, this song just sounds like me and Sarah living together in college to be honest 

SARAH: Yeah, and the thing that some people might be like, oh that's romantic is… it's the whole thing of like “darling you might think it's too soon, but I can't get you out of my head now, picturing myself in your room and I want to be with you till I’m dead now.” I’ve been in Kayla’s room 

KAYLA: Mm-hmm 

SARAH: We've hung out, Kayla and I became good friends way too fast. 

KAYLA: That's very true. It was too soon 

SARAH: That can very well happen 

KAYLA: Want to hear something romantic I once did for Sarah? 

SARAH: I would love to 

KAYLA: One time, it was Halloween and I was out at a party and Sarah was home up in her lofted bed watching a movie and she… 

SARAH: I was watching Teen Wolf. Thank you.

KAYLA: She's watching Teen Wolf and she texted me and she said I really want one of the Tollhouse Cookies

SARAH: Loft House Cookies 

KAYLA: Loft… Sorry, Loft House Cookies that's down where I can't reach it because I’m up in my bed and I was like, don't worry. I'll be home so soon. So, I ran home so fast and got her a cookie 

SARAH: She handed me that cookie. 

KAYLA: I did 

SARAH: It was very romantic and we'd only known each other for two months at that point 

KAYLA: And listen, we also shared an address 

SARAH: We did share an address. Amazing 

KAYLA: I just wanted to share 

SARAH: Yeah, I never finished season one of Teen Wolf. I never got into it enough 

KAYLA: Sorry 

SARAH: Just so you know. Yeah, no, I just think that's a very… could be a very platonic indeed, the next one is Make You Feel My love by Adele, now this one came up so much when I was looking at lists of like the best love songs like this one just kept coming up a lot and also this song slaps. So, um but there's nothing about this song that's inherently romantic, she's just saying that like, you know, she she'd do anything for you to make you feel her love like, you know, she would… She would do anything for you, she loves you very much but it doesn't say what kind of love it is, she's not saying I would do anything to fuck you 

KAYLA: A lot of these seem like they could definitely be very familial. It could just be your mom being like I love you a lot 

SARAH: Yeah, like come on songwriters Bob Dylan... Oh, I think this was originally a Bob Dylan song. I forgot about that, I simply forgot about that or did he just… Did he ever release it? Did he just write? it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. 

KAYLA: Oh, my 

SARAH: Um anyway um very just you know nothing inherently romantic song about this. Uh the next one is Best of my Love by The Emotions, do you know what I’m talking about? 

KAYLA: I don't know her. Nope 

SARAH: It's the, “you get the best of my love, oh, whoa” you know?

KAYLA: No, but you sounded like Shania Twain for a second 

SARAH: You do know this song. It's 70s. 

KAYLA: To be honest Shania Twain That Don't Impress Me Much 

SARAH: That Don't Impress Me Much  

KAYLA: It’s pretty aro-ace, retty aro-ace 

SARAH: That's so true, it is honestly great point. That Don't Impress Me Much  by Shania Twain she's just basically saying I expect a very high caliber if you want to date me and none of you are meeting that caliber and maybe she should think about why no one is meeting that caliber maybe because um she's actually aro-ace and is just looking for what she thinks she should look for. I did that when I was in 9th grade 

KAYLA: I also wanted Tom Cruise and Elvis and whatever else she think about 

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SARAH: “So, you're a rocket scientist that don't impress me much” 

KAYLA: God, I love Shania Twain so much 

SARAH: Same. Anyway, so that also a very good one, but Best of my Love by The Emotions um like it's about like affection like okay, let me give you this line, “demonstrating free love and affection that you give so openly. Yeah, the way I feel about you baby can't explain it want the whole wide world to see,” that's about affection, but it's not inherently romantic. 

KAYLA: It could just be like we're really good friends and I want everyone on Instagram to see how best friends we are 

SARAH: Yeah. You know, “love has kissed me in a beautiful way, that doesn't mean that you kissed them on the mouth” 

KAYLA: And kisses can be platonic people 

SARAH: Do not bring up what I know you want to bring up 

KAYLA: How I’m saying is sometimes a kiss is platonic 

SARAH: “A kiss on the lips, maybe quite continental” 

KAYLA: Very platonic 

SARAH: But you are a girl's best friend because it's platonic 

KAYLA: Ooh, I love it here 

SARAH: Anyway. Yeah, they're just saying “because our love's no mystery.” What kind of love? No, you don't say, “doesn't take much to make me happy and make me smile with glee.” Yeah, that's someone that you like, that's good. Um my next one is Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gay. 

KAYLA: Is that supposed to be a love song? 

SARAH: Yeah, I mean a lot of time it's interpreted as one 

KAYLA: I disagree

SARAH: Um, it came up a lot when I was looking up like best love songs

KAYLA: No

SARAH: But there's simply no need for that to be romantic. 

KAYLA: Oh, he's just saying he's going to get to you 

SARAH: He's going to get to you. I mean there's the line where it's like “remember the day I set you free I told you, you could always count on me darling from that day on I made a vow I'll be there when you want me some way somehow” something would be like, oh vow marriage, bitch you can make vows that aren't marriage 

KAYLA: They made vows all the time in Harry Potter 

SARAH: True, unbreakable 

KAYLA: Unbreakable ones. 

SARAH: Uh, Kayla, have we ever made a vow to each other? 

KAYLA: I don't know whether we have. I’ve definitely… I have a vow with one of my work friends 

SARAH: Oh 

KAYLA: To not be snakes 

SARAH: Oh. Okay 

KAYLA: Do we have… should we make a vow right now? 

SARAH: Yeah, what should it be? 

KAYLA: If either of us ever needs a cookie…

SARAH: Uh, that seems complicated like I’m in California. 

KAYLA: Well, you'll have to send me one then 

SARAH: In the mail? 

KAYLA: I suppose. Evan's grandma used to send cookies in the mail 

SARAH: It could take years. 

KAYLA: It won't 

SARAH: Oh interesting 

KAYLA: When bae doesn't want to make a vow with you 

SARAH: Well, we'll sit on this vow thing I… that just seems like a not like a helpful vow 

KAYLA: This week's poll, what should we vow?

SARAH: What should we vow to each other? Um, my last one, it's not really well known, it's not even like aggressively romantic. It's just been on my mind a lot lately, it's… the song is called Vegas by Cody Frey, the only reason I mentioned this is because I’ve been listening to it a lot since quarantine started, but the things he talks about doing in this song are so outdated in the time of coronavirus, the first line of the song is, “What if we walked into the airport and bought a ticket at the counter and just flew” like what a quaint concept 

KAYLA: No, no, no, he simply cannot be doing that 

SARAH: Imagine being able to just go somewhere? like this song isn't like super overtly romantic, it could definitely be interpreted that way. I just wanted to point that out to everyone like that is just such an outdated line um… 

KAYLA: You can't be doing that 

SARAH: Here in April, May of 2020 

KAYLA: Yeah, no 

SARAH: Um I tried and failed to reclaim some Ed Sheeran songs, uh, because I’d love to do that 

KAYLA: I thought about Ed Sheeran and then I like didn't even try 

SARAH: He really writes the romance into the song. It's very overt. 

KAYLA: Well, because he… 

SARAH: Speaking of… did he ever get married? 

KAYLA: Who was he engaged to? 

SARAH: Like his like high school best friend. It was really cute. They just like announced it out of nowhere. 

KAYLA: Oh, I don't know 

SARAH: Something like that, I don't know it wasn't Ellie Golding 

KAYLA: Okay 

SARAH: The song “Don't” is apparently about Ellie Golding. 

KAYLA: Oh, tea 

SARAH: So, you know? 

KAYLA: Sure 

SARAH: Uh, but yeah, no, he really writes the romance into the songs and I was like… 

KAYLA: Yeah. It's like anyone… like he's one that like specifically talks about like we're going to do this and then we're going to do that and it's like yeah. Well, those are very… Yeah, those are very romance and sex things you're talking about 

SARAH: Right, he just like… I… I’m even now trying to go through like his lesser-known songs like I was like LittleBbird might work and then no little bird talks about like kissing a lot and like… But like it's pretty open 

KAYLA: But not platonically. 

SARAH: It's like overt. Yeah. I mean there are some songs that he has written that are not about love 

KAYLA: But? 

SARAH: But that's not the point… 

KAYLA: But they’re not about love 

SARAH: You need me. I want to see… oh no, there's definitely some sexual stuff in You Need Me, I Don't Need You. It's a really great line about an elevator 

KAYLA: Oh 

SARAH: Um, anyway um… Yeah, I really wanted to do some Ed Sheeran... I mean I didn't I didn't look at every Ed Sheeran song uh, so if anyone has any that they want to bring to my attention I do.... I do know pretty much all of his songs. So… 

KAYLA: Wow, aren't you cool? 

SARAH: That wasn't meant to be like a weird brag. 

KAYLA: It definitely was 

SARAH: I was… I’m just saying… I don't know what I’m saying. 

KAYLA: Okay. 

SARAH: I got to… I’m backing up. Those were all of mine. Do you have any that I didn't say? 

KAYLA: Yes, I have several 

SARAH: Good 

KAYLA: One is by Ben Platt, my son. But now I have to re-pull up the lyrics because I put something else on my phone, Grow As We Go by Ben Platt he says that he wrote the song about like him and their romantic partner who like he was really in love with but they just like weren't working out it was time to go separate ways but there's nothing in here that couldn't be about like a friendship that's like time to end 

SARAH: Yeah

KAYLA: Like it talks about like… In the song the person is trying to convince the other person like no we could stay together and just like grow together and it's fine which could be a conversation you have with a friend of like “No, I know we're like kind of going in different ways and we have different friend groups, but we can still be friends. It's fine” 

SARAH: Yeah, no, that's good. Also, I was… I just thought of another Ben Platt song that has been on my mind recently because it's the perfect wedding first dance song for David and Patrick on Schitt's Creek, don't worry about it. 

KAYLA: Oh

SARAH: But even though it is a very good romantic song Ease My Mind by Ben Platt also could be completely platonic like it's just about how like this other person like helps like calm you down and like, you know 

KAYLA: There is only one song from Ben Platt's debut album that I think could not be platonic, let me find it, because it specifically talks about getting engaged which… 

SARAH: Now we're just deep diving. Well, the one about his parents getting married 

KAYLA: Yes, that one

SARAH: What is it? Is that Run Away? 

KAYLA: Yes 

SARAH: Okay 

KAYLA: In Run Away he like specifically talks about like people falling in love and getting engaged and it's like…

SARAH: Because they’re his parents 

KAYLA: Yes

SARAH: Uh, yeah 

KAYLA: There is other ones that like… I mean they're all like can definitely be taken and probably written as romance but… 

SARAH: Yeah, they can apply in different ways

KAYLA: But I think a lot of them can be like friend breakups or just like friend things, you know 

SARAH: Yeah, well, I mean the song Older is not even a love song. 

KAYLA: That's true. Not at all. 

SARAH: So, Older slaps 

KAYLA: They all slap 

SARAH: Um, what else do you got? 

KAYLA: I have, I Will Always Love You because I have news for all of you and that it's that that's pretty much the only lyric in the song 

SARAH: See that was actually one of my rejects 

KAYLA: Why? 

SARAH: I don't remember. Let me look at the lyrics. 

KAYLA: But like there's no… there's nothing in it. Like it's just saying like goodbye if I should stay I'd only be in your way but I'll think of you just like we both like…

SARAH: Like actually I don't know why I rejected it 

KAYLA: Because it's just saying like basically it's like the same thing as the Ben Platt one of like we can't be together anymore, it's not good for either of us, but I’ll still love you. 

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SARAH: You know what I just realized? 

KAYLA: What? 

SARAH: I was mixing it up with My Heart Will Go On. I rejected My Heart Will Go On 

KAYLA: Okay, I have My Heart Will Go On as my next one 

SARAH: Okay, I accept I Will Always Love You. 

KAYLA: I think… let me pull through lyrics. I think My Heart Will Go On can be reclaimed 

SARAH: I…

KAYLA: Let me look at it again 

SARAH: “Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you” 

KAYLA: Yes, I think this one is about being haunted by a ghost 

SARAH: Interesting 

KAYLA: And that's what I think is this could easily if you read the lyrics be about a haunting 

SARAH: And that’s… that’s an interesting title 

KAYLA: “Far across the distance and spaces between us you have come to show you go on, they won't leave, they keep going on” 

SARAH: Oh no. We'll stay forever this way 

KAYLA: One… “love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime and never let go till we're gone,” that is a little, I mean that's ironic because it's about a ghost but 

SARAH: Oh, man, that's a bold… That's a… that's a choice. You've made a choice there 

KAYLA: “My heart will go on and on” because it's a ghost it'll just keep going. 

SARAH: I feel like I… Yeah, I think I feel that way the same way about your thoughts on this as you feel about me and Careless Whisperer 

KAYLA: I just feel like there's a strong case for the song about… is about Celine Dion being haunted by a ghost 

SARAH: Okay, that's good to know. 

KAYLA: I think there's a strong case there 

SARAH: Okay 

KAYLA: My next one is My girl by I don't know who, The Temptations 

SARAH: Okay 

KAYLA: You know this song? 

SARAH: I do 

KAYLA: There's nothing… There's nothing, it's just talking about like…

SARAH: Yeah, I just looked at the lyrics. There's nothing 

KAYLA: “I’ve got sunshine you make me feel better like who could make me feel this way my girl” that could be me talking about Sarah,  m’girl 

SARAH: M’girl

KAYLA: Or my cat

SARAH: It could be talking about your child 

KAYLA: Even though my cat just ate some raw chicken, I feel like this is another classic daddy daughter dance song. 

SARAH: Yeah 

KAYLA: Like what was it? Butterfly Kisses was a classic at our daddy-daughter dance. There's just you know… 

SARAH: Oh this… It literally just told me related search pop songs about daughters 

KAYLA: See, that’s what I’m saying 

SARAH: What a great song about a daughter, I mean that one is explicitly about a daughter. 

KAYLA: Okay, I don't need no money…

SARAH: Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder? It's literally about a baby being born 

KAYLA: Gross 

SARAH: Anyway 

KAYLA: See, he's just saying he's all… he's got all the riches because he has his girl but like he doesn't say who the girl is, it could be his mom 

SARAH: Could be his grandma 

KAYLA: His grandma 

SARAH: Could be his neighbor, his neighbor Nancy. 

KAYLA: That's a little much for me 

SARAH: Oh, too bad. 

KAYLA: We've gone too far 

SARAH: But what if you're really really good friends with your neighbor? 

KAYLA: No 

SARAH: Okay 

KAYLA: Shit. I had one down and I don't remember why I put this out because now I’m reading it and it's not…

SARAH: What is it? 

KAYLA: Okay, it's Last Dance 

SARAH: Okay 

KAYLA: And in my notes I just wrote there's dot dot dot got to be something here 

SARAH: It literally says I’m so so horny I just looked up the lyrics there's a line in this song that says I’m so there's a line that just says “I’m so so so horny” 

KAYLA: There is a line that says for “romance tonight, it's will you be my mister right? Can you feel my appetite?” There's definitely not something here. I don't know what I was looking at. There's certainly nothing here. There's got to be something here 

SARAH: Oh no

KAYLA: There's certainly nothing here 

SARAH: Oh, no

KAYLA: What was I looking at? 

SARAH: I don't know 

KAYLA: Well, scratch that one up. My next one is my strongest case yet because I don't think many people see it as a love song because you truly can't tell what it's about but I looked up what the writer said it was about. So, have you ever heard Macarthur Park by Donna Summers? 

SARAH: Left the cake out in the rain, bitch. 

KAYLA: Yes. Yes. So… 

SARAH: “Someone left the cake out of the rain” 

KAYLA: Someone left the cake… So I looked it up and the guy who wrote it was like yeah I was like in love with this girl and we spent a lot of time at this park so like everything in the song is true, I guess about like there's was always old men playing Chinese checkers and like there's very… it's just very vivid details in the song about this park MacArthur Park. 

SARAH: “Someone left the cake out in the rain, I don't think that I can take it because it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe again” 

KAYLA: Yes, so that's the main part of the song that goes over and over again. So, I feel like if any song that this man obviously wrote it as some type of romance because it was about the summer he had with this girl. 

SARAH: It's about a lost romance about yellow cotton dress foaming like a wave 

KAYLA: That's what he said is what it's about. It's like a lost romance in this park, but it's just about a cake which… 

SARAH: It's about a cake in McArthur Park

KAYLA: Which is pretty fucking ace if you ask me 

SARAH: And we have been to McArthur Park 

KAYLA: Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. 

SARAH: It's not an inherently romantic place. 

KAYLA: It was kind of disgusting actually 

SARAH: Not romantic at all. 

KAYLA: No

SARAH: Let's take that. 

KAYLA: Where was that? 

SARAH: What do you mean? Where was that? 

KAYLA: Where was McArthur Park? 

SARAH: It's in LA 

KAYLA: Oh, I couldn't remember we've been so many places 

SARAH: I could go there now. I won't 

KAYLA: Dang it

SARAH: But I could 

KAYLA: What if we recorded a podcast episode from McArthur Park? 

SARAH: It'd be wild. Um… 

KAYLA: That's my last one 

SARAH: Okay. I think we have some good options here. Uh 

KAYLA: I feel very strongly about My Heart Will Go On 

SARAH: Okay. Um, and I feel strongly about Careless Whisper 

KAYLA: Oh, you're wrong 

SARAH: Maybe that should be one of the polls which is a… which is more of a platonic song

KAYLA: Mm

SARAH: Careless Whisper or My Heart Will… like Careless Whisper regarding dance partners. My Heart Will Go On regarding ghosts 

KAYLA: Oh lord Lord

SARAH: Lord, um. What was the other poll that we were going to do? 

KAYLA: Oh god, I don't remember 

SARAH: Okay, cool. Um all right, so that's our poll. Someone wants to remind us what the other poll was

KAYLA: I’m sure someone will, sometimes if I don't post the poll in time someone tweets and they're like bitch. Where's that poll? 

SARAH: Where is the poll? 

KAYLA: I’m sure they'll be there. 

SARAH: Um Good, um Kayla what's your beef and your juice this week? 

KAYLA: Oh, I’m so tweaked 

SARAH: Okay, my beef is people who are like here's what you should eat to be to get a model bod I eat three egg whites a day and a smoothie and four gallons of water and a single raw black bean and that's it. Bitch, no don't encourage that 

KAYLA: A single raw black bean 

SARAH: Like bitch, I will fight you and I will win because you're not getting enough nutrients 

KAYLA: A single raw black bean 

SARAH: And also, when you're over there eating more fucking… Eating more fucking egg whites and hating your life. I’m over here eating a donut and feeling alive which gives me a mark head advantage 

KAYLA: Mm-hmm. You have something to live for that's the thing. These people have nothing to live for 

SARAH: Exactly, I don't care what the hell it makes my body look like, the only way for you to get me to eat like that is to pay me a lot of money 

KAYLA: Mm-hmm 

SARAH: Anyway, my juice is uh the new introductions channel on our discord, I like reading who is in there

KAYLA: Oh, I do too I like it 

SARAH: It's a good time 

KAYLA: Everyone is like from different places and you can see how many gabies we have, there are so many young small children who like… 

SARAH: There's young people, but there's also people who aren't children 

KAYLA: Oh, yes, there's a very… there's a variety of ages. I’m just very impressed by like some of the young people in there are very like articulate and also like have themselves like way more figured out than we did at that age. So, it's just…

SARAH: Mm-hmm. 

KAYLA: It's a good time 

SARAH: Look at him girl. My other juice is uh, so the Broadway Bounty Hunter, um cast recording came out which I’ve been waiting for so long because last year when I was in New York City I went to a Iconis and family Show at 54 below and Annie Golden performed veins from Broadway Bounty Hunter and it was so good but it wasn't recorded anywhere and it was… there were some recordings of her performing it live on YouTube but I wanted it in my Spotify and then Broadway Bounty Hunter was off Broadway, but I couldn't go because I don't live in New York and um, but the cast recording came out last week and now I can listen to veins by Annie Golden on repeat 

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KAYLA: Mm-hmm 

SARAH: That's it 

KAYLA: That's a good one. 

SARAH: Thank you. 

KAYLA: When do I have… I thought of one earlier and I cannot remember what it is. 

SARAH: This is why you write them down you fool 

KAYLA: Yeah. Let me think, I guess a beef is one of my pens is running out, I can't just really go out and get a pen

SARAH: I have so many pens 

KAYLA: Uh, yeah, I do like back in my apartment, but I didn't bring my entire pen collection back to Michigan. 

SARAH: That's fair, very fair 

KAYLA: Um, let's see. What is… Wait, do you say I got a letter in the mail from Sarah the other day? That was exciting 

SARAH: It contained poetry. 

KAYLA: It did. It was a very good poem 

SARAH: I sent her a Gek poem in the mail. 

KAYLA: Yes, it was very good um what are my other things? I simply cannot remember that's all 

SARAH: Okay, um if you want to tell us about your beef or your juice if you want to donate to our fundraiser, you can find all the information for that on our social media @soundsfakepod everywhere. You can also go to tinyurl.com/donate6feet six the number, feet spelled out and give us your money. Well, it's not us, you're giving…

KAYLA: My other juice is the people who have given their money 

SARAH: That's so true um it's a great call. It's going to help a lot of coveted related Shenanigans and things uh, and 

KAYLA: Good pitch, good pitch 

SARAH: It makes a difference. Thank you. I worked hard on that bitch. Um, you can also support us on Patreon, patreon.com/soundsfakepod the money that we personally donated, uh, we were able to donate because of our patrons. So, thank you very much. um our $5 patrons are Jennifer Smart, Astritha Vinnakota, Austin Le, Drew Finney, Perry Fierro, Dee, Megan Rowell, Quinn Pollock, Emily Collins, BookMarvel, Changeling MX, Derrick and Carissa, Simona Simon, Jamie jack, Jessica, Shea Rio Faustino, Daniel Walker who is in fact Slice of Ace 

KAYLA: We are just big dumb 

SARAH: We're so stupid um and Barefoot Backpacker our new $5 patron from Twitter, we've been seeing you around a lot 

KAYLA: Who also has a podcast? 

SARAH: Yeah, thank you for joining us. 

KAYLA: Oh 

SARAH: Our $10 patrons are Kevin and Tessa @dirtyuncleKevin @Tessa_m_k, Arcness who'd like to promote the Trevor project, Benjamin Ybarra who'd like to promote Tabletop games, anonymous who’d like to promote Halloween, Sarah McCoy who'd like to promote podcasts from  a planet weird, my aunt Jennie who'd like to promote Christopher’s Haven, Cassandra who'd like to promote their modeling Instagram @liddowred, Doug rice who would like to promote Native by Caitlin Curtis and Maggie Capellbo who'd like to promote her dog's Instagram @minniemuffin19. Our $15 patrons are Nathaniel White, nathanieljwhitedesigns.com, my mom Julie who'd like to promote free mum hugs from a distance, Sarah Jones who's @eternalloli everywhere, Dia Chappelle who would like to promote the podcast the beacon and dragonfly who would like to promote our fundraiser for the world health organization covid 19 

KAYLA: Wow. Thanks dragonfly, how generous 

SARAH: I already I already forgot what it's called, I cannot… 

KAYLA: It's WHO United Nations Covid 19 Solidarity Response Fund 

SARAH: Yes, for some reason I can't remember the name of it ever. 

KAYLA: I often have to look it up 

SARAH: Yeah, um but yeah nice cool 

KAYLA: Good. 

SARAH: Thanks for listening tune in next Sunday for more of us in your ears 

KAYLA: And until then give us your money, but it's not for us 

SARAH: But not us. Give it give it to our fundraiser. Give it to people who need it. 

KAYLA: Goodbye 

SARAH: Bye

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