Matt Walsh listens to the top 5 overall songs on Spotify for the month of May. Today's Sponsor: ExpressVPN - Go to and find out how you can get 3 months of ExpressVPN free!

Okay, so there are, you know, uh, hosts, other hosts here on this platform who claim to be pop culture experts. But, I think everyone knows that I stand alone at The Daily Wire as the, uh, and in society, generally speaking, as the foremost expert in pop culture. Which is why today I'll be reviewing some, uh, some popular songs. These are, in fact, the top 5 most popular songs, uh, in the country in the month of May. And this is popular as measured by Spotify plays. So we'll go down the list. Uh, we'll take a listen. I'll probably hate all of them. And, um, and then I'll say that they suck. And that'll be the video. That's gonna be the video for today. That's the video. That's what you're getting. Well, this is gonna hurt like a mother****er. And just so you know how much of an expert I am, I've heard of one of them, uh, but have not heard any of them. And this, by the way, uh, will be news to maybe anyone that's watching this over the age of 45. That this is a diss track. And this is a song that Kendrick Lamar made, uh, dissing. And that's what the kids are making fun of, is what that means. The rapper Drake. I need to mock Swin. So they don't like each other. They're just, 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 instead we'll just, we'll listen to the song and judge it by its own artistic merits. Here it is. I'm finna pass on this body. I'm John Stockton. Beat your ass and hide the Bible if God's watching. Sometimes you gotta pop out and show this certified boogie man. I'm the one that's up to score with him. Walk him down whole time, I know he got some ho in him. Pull on him, extort shit, bully the floor on him. Say Drake, I hear you like I'm young. You better not ever go to cell block one. To any bitch that talk to him and they in love, just make sure you hide your little sister from him. They tell me Chubb's the only one that get your hammy downs. And party after party, playing with his nose now. And Baka got a weird case, why is he around? Certified lover boy, certified pedophiles. Okay. Probably heard enough of that. Um, stylistically, um, not bad. The problem is I have no idea what he's saying. I heard pedophile. I heard that. So someone's a certified pedophile. Embarrassing! Allegedly. I don't know who is Drake. 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 diss track, in order for it to work, we have to know what you're saying. And I also don't understand how a diss track in the first place is not considered really nerdy. Like it's, 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, 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 Richmond. 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, Million Dollar Baby. But let's listen. Yeah, I gotta 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 going to find that on Spotify. I will. And I'm going to 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, I'm going to give that a solid 7.2 out of 10. This whole segment is falling apart because I'm supposed to hate everything. A few decades ago, private citizens used to be largely that, private. The internet has changed everything. Think about everything you have browsed, searched for, watched, or tweeted. 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Had a wild heaven on a two Living in your big glass house with the view I thought you knew I had some help It ain't like I can make this kind of mess all by myself Don't act like you ain't helped me pull that bottle off the shelf Be deep in every weekend if you couldn't tell They say teamwork makes the dream work Hell, I had some help You thought I'd take the blame for us We're crawling around like you ain't gifted Alright, I might have been able to appreciate this more if I wasn't watching the video cause 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 be doing to y'all. 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 department 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. So it sounds like 95% of every other country song that's produced these days. But I'm not going to say it's terrible. It's just fine. It's like, alright. That's a solid 5.3 out of 10 on that one. This next one's called A Bar Song by something called Shaboozie. And this one has 186 million plays. With a name like that, it doesn't sound like the kind of artist that would produce music that I would necessarily like. But let's find out. She's been telling me all night long Gasoline and groceries The list goes on and on This nine to five ain't working Why the hell do I work so hard? I can't worry about my problems I can't take them when I'm gone One, here comes the two to the three to the four Tell them bring another round, we need many more Who's stabbing 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 J. Dale's got a history There's a party downtown near Fifth Street Everybody at the bar getting tipsy Everybody at the bar getting tipsy I'm not 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 the laziest music video I've ever seen. 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 is what we do with music videos now. Back in my day, music videos were a big deal. You would sit and watch TV. You'd turn on MTV. If you were older, you'd put on VH1. And you'd 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 was his first, usually he's 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 for that song. It might happen. So I'm going to give that one a 7.4 out of 10. Let's go to the last song, and this is Espresso by somebody named Sabrina Carpenter. Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter Okay, good. I'm glad we finally heard that. Phew. Because I hate that one. That one I hate. Finally. 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. 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... Why does this exist? Why does it have to exist in the world? It has no soul, no heart. You might say that about some of the other songs we've heard so far. I'm not going to say that Shaboozie's bar song has a whole lot of soul and heart to it, but it at least has a certain exuberance. You know, there's a certain kind of 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 0 out of 10. I give that one a 0 out of 10. 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.

Sat Jun 01 2024