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Speaker 2: it's our New Year's Eve special. We've had a big
Speaker 2: year here at High Scrollers and we're going to take
Speaker 2: you through some of our royal flushes of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: The best things we've got three things each, best things
Speaker 2: we've seen on the internet, best things in our personal lives,
Speaker 2: things like that, everything that's happened this year. We're going
Speaker 2: to take you through the best of the best of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Deal me in told, let's go Happer
Speaker 2: new Ye don't know yet it's tonight, but yes, people aren't.
Speaker 3: Going to fucking listen to this on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3: They're busy.
Speaker 2: I don't reckon They'll be listening hung over tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So I'm saying, Happy New Yeah, let the fireworks expleol you're.
Speaker 2: Nice and fresh. Maybe New Year knew me. Everyone's at
Speaker 2: the gym listening to us on the treadmill. If you're
Speaker 2: on the treadmill, keep going, go on, then get it, son.
Speaker 3: Fuck I don't think I'm ever going to walk on
Speaker 3: a treadmill again.
Speaker 2: Really yeah? Fuck that? Yeah, I get quite bored after
Speaker 2: just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: Same again, limb, it's like.
Speaker 2: Two minutes feels like two hours, and I go. I
Speaker 2: was having a conversation with a friend the other day
Speaker 2: and he was trying to convince me to do Barrie's
Speaker 2: boot Camp, which is like, I was like, describe it
Speaker 2: to me. It's like forty five or is it? Like
Speaker 2: apparently it's meant to be one of the hardest workouts
Speaker 2: in the world. I said, you've lost me. I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't do it. I can't be bothered. But welcome
Speaker 2: to our final episode of twenty twenty four. Obviously it's
Speaker 2: New Year tonight. I don't know if you're listening tonight
Speaker 2: or when you're.
Speaker 3: Listening you're doing for New Year's this year?
Speaker 2: Matt, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3: In to my house?
Speaker 2: Oh okay?
Speaker 3: Oh no, but fuck that it's too far?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 2: No? It'll be fine. Well, i'll see I think as
Speaker 2: long as you've got You've got a spare bed, don't you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, party at mine?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I've got to get myself sorted. Who knows,
Speaker 2: I don't know. We haven't got a plan for New
Speaker 2: Year's obviously, scrollers. By the way, we're on and you'll
Speaker 2: leave at the moment. We're on our Christmas New Year break,
Speaker 2: so we are recording this a couple of weeks in
Speaker 2: advance for you. But I don't actually have a solid
Speaker 2: plan yet. Do you have any plans or you just don't.
Speaker 3: Have a plan. Yeah, I'll just be at home. I reckon.
Speaker 3: Anyone's welcome.
Speaker 2: We've worked all year on the bloody house. As if
Speaker 2: you're going anywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not fucking going anywhere.
Speaker 2: Although you did say in our because in preparation for
Speaker 2: tonight's Today's episode, I did go back to last year's
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve episode that we did. I had a
Speaker 2: bit of a listen to it to see whether we
Speaker 2: said anything or mentioned anything that we could like reflect
Speaker 2: on and whether we even in twenty twenty four and
Speaker 2: last year you said that your goal was to get
Speaker 2: a yacht.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I wasn't talking about this year.
Speaker 2: Well, I just wanted to know how close to it
Speaker 2: are you? Oh?
Speaker 3: Not much closer at all?
Speaker 2: This fucking I'm getting impatient over here. I'm waiting for
Speaker 2: that yacht on Sydney Harbor. Last year I said, you
Speaker 2: want a yacht on Sydney Harbor.
Speaker 3: Life goal? That's not like a one twelve month goal.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, if we could work on that in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, that'd be really good.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, that's like a life goal.
Speaker 1: I see myself at like sixty years old, just aj
Speaker 1: and I like on a yacht, not in Sydney, in
Speaker 1: like Italy or.
Speaker 3: Something, just sip in a champagne, you know, like imagine that.
Speaker 2: I mean, it would be nice, but it would be
Speaker 2: nice if we could do it. This year or next year.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me big out. Well, I'm not going on
Speaker 1: on your leave. Then I got to keep working so
Speaker 1: you can get a yacht.
Speaker 2: What did you say, I don't. I didn't have any
Speaker 2: sort of goal like a yacht. But last year my
Speaker 2: royal flush Wasylor Swift because, as I said, I became
Speaker 2: a Swift in like twenty twenty three. So that was
Speaker 2: one of my royal flushes with Taylor Swift and the
Speaker 2: Errors tour. And then my other royal flush of last
Speaker 2: year was the Barbie movie and just all of the
Speaker 2: pr and you know, remember it's quite like Wicked this year.
Speaker 2: Last year we had Barbie, where every brand collaborated with Barbie.
Speaker 3: I want to say.
Speaker 1: I want to say now, like I reckon, the Barbie
Speaker 1: was louder than Wicked.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The marketing, the marketing team's better.
Speaker 2: Yeah. True. True, because I guess Barbie is a more
Speaker 2: universally recognized brand.
Speaker 3: Yeah true.
Speaker 1: They had that advantage over Wicked. People only like Wicked,
Speaker 1: Wicked that like Wicked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there has been a lot of collaborations with Wicked,
Speaker 2: and I have picked up some things. I've had to
Speaker 2: restrain from getting absolutely.
Speaker 3: Everything about Ariana's makeup.
Speaker 2: No, no, sorry, I'm not about RAM beauty. I don't.
Speaker 2: I love Ariana.
Speaker 3: But what does RAM stand for?
Speaker 2: Really? He makeup?
Speaker 3: Rem sleep?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well she's got a she's got a song called RIM.
Speaker 3: So rapid Eye Movement.
Speaker 2: No oh. It says it's a dream state but also
Speaker 2: focuses on the eyes.
Speaker 1: So it is about rem sleep. I was just joking
Speaker 1: when I said that.
Speaker 3: There you go. It is rapid eye movement.
Speaker 2: It stands for dream beauty. Okay, fun, Well that's nice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I actually haven't even tried anything from
Speaker 2: RAM Beauty, but I don't try any of those like celebrity.
Speaker 1: But I will say Rare Beauty is really good, and
Speaker 1: so is Fenty like Rihanna.
Speaker 3: H Fenty, I will Rare and Fenty actually fucking are
Speaker 3: so good.
Speaker 2: Everything I've used from Rare I went not really not
Speaker 2: for me, and I haven't tried anything from House Labs
Speaker 2: from Lady Gaga.
Speaker 3: Apparently that's really good too, but I've never tried.
Speaker 1: I feel like Rare Beauty is good for like the
Speaker 1: soft girl, like you know, so you're more like cool
Speaker 1: glam with your makeups.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's why you didn't like rare.
Speaker 2: Yeah true. Last year your royal flushes were pink V yep,
Speaker 2: which is so fun because we actually said in last
Speaker 2: year's episode like you need to work together and.
Speaker 1: We've got We did a brand deal with them this year. Yes,
Speaker 1: so that was like manifested.
Speaker 2: The pink fee fridge at Fate. So there you go.
Speaker 2: You manifested that one. And last year it was funny
Speaker 2: you said in that episode that you had created a
Speaker 2: Pink V Christmas tree in the Fate warehouse. Yes, full
Speaker 2: of all the empty cans. You'd take them all together. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we did you do that.
Speaker 1: We do have a massive tub of like empty ones.
Speaker 1: We've got everyone to put the cans there. So I
Speaker 1: think AG needs to build another one. Nice, but we're
Speaker 1: recording this early.
Speaker 3: Yeah true, I can't say.
Speaker 2: You also said your royal flush was Britney Spears Conservative
Speaker 2: Ship ending, even though it ended.
Speaker 3: The year before.
Speaker 1: I know, but it felt like that year because it
Speaker 1: was all on the fucking news.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I thought this episode being the main episode,
Speaker 2: obviously we're doing a bit shorter episodes for you. We
Speaker 2: thought we'd cut to the chase and give you our
Speaker 2: royal flushes of twenty twenty four the best things we
Speaker 2: saw on the internet, but can also have to do
Speaker 2: with our life as well.
Speaker 3: You know, he always so hard. I felt the same
Speaker 3: way last year. Yeah, like this is a very hard
Speaker 3: thing to answer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I've got.
Speaker 1: Man ready, let's start one for one again.
Speaker 2: So first of all, I think it's very obvious one
Speaker 2: of my royal flushes of the year would be the
Speaker 2: Wicked movie. Definitely, all of that. Remember all the hype
Speaker 2: surrounding the premiere, when I met Arianna and Cynthia, all
Speaker 2: the rest of that. That little interaction I had watching
Speaker 2: the movie for the first time at the State Theater
Speaker 2: with everybody in the room was just such a magical experience. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Wicked means so much to me and I just love it.
Speaker 2: I think they did the movie justice. I think all
Speaker 2: of the merch surrounding it so fabulous. Again, similar to Barbie,
Speaker 2: basically same points I said last year about Barbie is
Speaker 2: what I'm going to say about Wicked. That has to
Speaker 2: be one of the biggest pop culture moments in a
Speaker 2: very long time. And I just think the whole campaign
Speaker 2: and everything was executed so well. I was obsessed with it.
Speaker 2: I can't wait for it to come out on streaming,
Speaker 2: so I can probably just watch it every single day to.
Speaker 1: Wait for it to come out on streaming, so I
Speaker 1: can watch it because I don't want to go looking
Speaker 1: to people.
Speaker 3: I can sing in the movie shut Up.
Speaker 2: And so I would say one of my biggest royal
Speaker 2: flushes of the year is the Wicked movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, one of mine is Addison Ray turning from
Speaker 1: a TikToker doing dances that were cringe into quite literally
Speaker 1: a pop star. I liked her when she was a TikToker,
Speaker 1: like in COVID times, and it's been really cool to
Speaker 1: watch someone fully go from like a cringe TikToker for
Speaker 1: kids into what she's doing now. Like she even did
Speaker 1: that movie like He's All That or whatever it was, and.
Speaker 3: That was cringey.
Speaker 1: But I've seen a lot of people like speculating her
Speaker 1: career saying like sometimes to get to like be a
Speaker 1: proper celebrity, you have to do those cringe things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and now she's just fully rebranded successfully and like I
Speaker 1: love Aquamarine, Like do you.
Speaker 3: Love that song? Like it's like it's so fucking cool
Speaker 3: and good.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like a lot of songs that come
Speaker 1: out or like if there's a new pop star, it's
Speaker 1: like stuff we've sort of heard before. And I know
Speaker 1: people say, like Aquamarine is kind of like old Madonna vibes,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, I just feel like it's new
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to seeing like what she does
Speaker 1: in the future because for so long, like we've had
Speaker 1: the same celebrities and the same like artists right like
Speaker 1: we've had Katie Perry, We've had Rihanna, we had Beyonce, like,
Speaker 1: but they're all getting kind of fucking old now. So
Speaker 1: I think it's like, I'm loving just seeing this wave
Speaker 1: of new singers and celebrities come in like Sabrina Chapel,
Speaker 1: Charlie Charlie, and then I feel like Addison's gonna become
Speaker 1: even more one of those girls. So I would say
Speaker 1: her rebrand is being in one of my royal flashes.
Speaker 2: Of the year. I think there are two things to
Speaker 2: note here on this conversation. First of all, I think
Speaker 2: that I saw a TikTok from someone who compared the
Speaker 2: trajectory of someone like Charlie Demilio to Addison Ray. And
Speaker 2: the fact that Addison Ray did a lot less on
Speaker 2: purpose and kind of worked behind the scenes to then
Speaker 2: give people something really polished and well executed, whereas someone
Speaker 2: like Charlie Demilio maybe just took every opportunity that came
Speaker 2: her way and was a bit of a yes, yes
Speaker 2: man or yes woman to all the opportunities. She did
Speaker 2: the reality show, she let people in, she did everything
Speaker 2: like so and it kind of overwhelmed everyone, whereas Adison
Speaker 2: Ray was like under she she kind of.
Speaker 3: Dropped off for a while.
Speaker 1: She did and didn't post a TikTok for like six
Speaker 1: to twelve months and then would post one random little video.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I think the other second point is
Speaker 2: talking about the music industry and seeing people like Sabrina,
Speaker 2: Charlie Chapel and who was the other one you said,
Speaker 2: Addison right, Well, not so much Addison Ray, I guess
Speaker 2: for this example. But it's funny how you said, like,
Speaker 2: you know, all the Beyonces and the Lady Gagas and
Speaker 2: the Katy Perry's, they kind of, you know, have dropped off.
Speaker 2: I think it's funny because the way that the music
Speaker 2: industry works, it's a little different for Sabrina carbon To,
Speaker 2: given this as her sixth album, Slash EP, I think yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know, remember Lady Gaga, Like she came out
Speaker 2: with her like just very standard. You're just dance like
Speaker 2: that's gonna please pretty much everyone. It's an earworm, it's
Speaker 2: basic lyrics, it's a good dance track. It's going to
Speaker 2: be able to be played on radio. Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Same with Ariana Grande. Actually she's a better example. Sorry
Speaker 2: to switch up. Ariana Grande is a better example. Her
Speaker 2: first album, even her second album, were very tailored to
Speaker 2: be like a number one hit. Like they were like,
Speaker 2: we want this to go number one, We want it
Speaker 2: played on every radio session. We want songs like you
Speaker 2: break Free that just still gets played.
Speaker 3: To this day and everyone basic pop song.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But then what happens is, after they've made their
Speaker 2: break in the music industry, they then start to peel
Speaker 2: off and try to be a bit more experimental or
Speaker 2: make the music that they want to actually make and
Speaker 2: have wanted to make the entire time, and then they
Speaker 2: start to either lose fans or fans lose interests.
Speaker 3: They've changed.
Speaker 2: People say they've changed. Rihanna's probably like the best if
Speaker 2: you listen to like Rihanna's first album Slash, even that
Speaker 2: loud album with only Girl in the World in it. Yes,
Speaker 2: listen to that and then listen to something like Anti.
Speaker 2: They could be two different artists, yep, you know. And
Speaker 2: so I think they get they get to a point
Speaker 2: where they're like, I don't want to make this shitty
Speaker 2: music that I actually don't care or connect with, which
Speaker 2: is so fair as an artist. I'm not saying there's
Speaker 2: anything wrong with that, but I think it's like it's
Speaker 2: like the music industry lulls people into a false sense
Speaker 2: of security with like these big bangers and big you know,
Speaker 2: even Sabrina with Espresso and Espresso was such a big song.
Speaker 2: Even when she released Short and Sweet, I was kind
Speaker 2: of like, I just wanted a whole album full of Espresso.
Speaker 2: None of this like sounds the same or it doesn't
Speaker 2: seem like it fits. It's like Espresso went, you know,
Speaker 2: really made her career and she gave us please, Please, Please,
Speaker 2: And I was like, it's a good song, Like I
Speaker 2: still I do love it, and I still play it
Speaker 2: and I still listen to it, but it's like so
Speaker 2: different to what I was expecting or wanting. M I mean,
Speaker 2: you always have your diehard fans that stick around forever.
Speaker 2: But I think that's that happens, is like once the
Speaker 2: Katy Perryes of the world start making this music that
Speaker 2: they actually want to make, they lose that radio play,
Speaker 2: they lose those fans, and then they've just got their
Speaker 2: core fandom.
Speaker 3: I just think.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I think back, like think back to
Speaker 1: when our parents were young, they had their Beyonces and
Speaker 1: Katy Perry's and everything, which would have been like Elvis
Speaker 1: and the Beatles and everything. And then I feel like
Speaker 1: we've had these big artists. The Lady Gargars are Beyonces.
Speaker 1: It's like cool to think that one day, like the
Speaker 1: Lady Gargars and Beyonces are going to be like the Beatles,
Speaker 1: and do you know what I mean, Like the generations
Speaker 1: like now there's like a new wave of artists coming through,
Speaker 1: so that kids' generations below us are going to have
Speaker 1: their Beyonces, you know, because then the way that we go, oh,
Speaker 1: Tom Jones, but like to our parents and whatever, Tom
Speaker 1: Jones is like Beyonce. Yeah, it's like each generation has
Speaker 1: their own icons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: It's just really interesting to see, Like I'm excited for them.
Speaker 2: It is so first Royal flush of the year is
Speaker 2: Addison Ray Love that my second one of the year
Speaker 2: is actually a musical that I saw that actually really
Speaker 2: surprised me. It's Titannique. And if this musical ever comes
Speaker 2: to your city, it's one of it's more of like
Speaker 2: an off Broadway sort of vibe, like it's not going
Speaker 2: to be in your big at least not at the moment.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be in your big theaters. It's
Speaker 2: not going to be promoted heavily, it's not going to
Speaker 2: have the budget. It's a smaller production that I went
Speaker 2: and saw. It's Titanique. It's a musical that is made
Speaker 2: up of Selene Dion songs. The premise of the musical
Speaker 2: is that Selene Dion was actually on the Titanic and
Speaker 2: she retells the story. And so I'm not the biggest
Speaker 2: Titanic fan, Like I've watched the movie. Cool, it's good, whatever.
Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you what happens really except that they
Speaker 2: hit an iceberg and then Celine dionn not the biggest fan.
Speaker 2: I don't know all of her songs. But I went
Speaker 2: and I really enjoyed not only the music but the
Speaker 2: story and also how funny it was. I don't think
Speaker 2: I stopped laughing from start to finish. There are a
Speaker 2: lot of references to really updated references of today's like
Speaker 2: pop culture. There's even a bit of improv in the show,
Speaker 2: so it like leans into being able to make a
Speaker 2: joke off the cuff that may be really relevant to
Speaker 2: that specific day that you're seeing the musical. So it's
Speaker 2: almost like you get a different musical each time you go.
Speaker 2: And it was really like one of the best musicals
Speaker 2: I've seen in such long time. And as I said,
Speaker 2: it was a lower budget I guess production like it
Speaker 2: wasn't in a big theater. It was in a smaller
Speaker 2: theater in Sydney. And if it's running and it comes
Speaker 2: to you in twenty twenty five or I know, I
Speaker 2: think it runs a lot in New York. Maybe if
Speaker 2: you ever find yourself over there, if you find yourself
Speaker 2: in a city, or if it comes to your city,
Speaker 2: I would highly recommend seeing Titanic. It is one of
Speaker 2: the best musicals I've seen in such a long time,
Speaker 2: so smart, so witty, so fun, and I just had
Speaker 2: the best night out. And I've been advocating for it
Speaker 2: ever since. Anyone who asks or if it comes up
Speaker 2: in a conversation or anything like that, I am straightway
Speaker 2: recommending that they get tickets and go and see it.
Speaker 2: So I'm passing that recommendation onto all of you. Titannique.
Speaker 2: That's spelt like Titanic, but instead of c it's que.
Speaker 2: It's very gay, It's very camp and you'll absolutely love it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: My second Royal flush of the year, more of a
Speaker 1: personal one but still was on the internet, would definitely
Speaker 1: have to be our seventh Birthday giveaway we did for
Speaker 1: our seven customers, as well as the community event that
Speaker 1: we did when we did the seven Customers brand trip.
Speaker 1: I know we've already spoke about this on the pod anyway,
Speaker 1: we did a big recap of it, so I won't
Speaker 1: go into dail, but just feel like that was a
Speaker 1: really big Royal flush for me in my journey and
Speaker 1: just being able to like share I guess our fate
Speaker 1: world with like seven of our customers and like have
Speaker 1: them with us and host them and kind of show
Speaker 1: them Newcastle as well. I feel like we brought a
Speaker 1: lot of tourism to Newcastle in that in those three days,
Speaker 1: especially for the customer event that we did in the night,
Speaker 1: because people came from fucking Hobart, New Zealand, Melbourne, Brisbane,
Speaker 1: people came from all over, So it was us bringing
Speaker 1: the tourism to Nui and it was just a big
Speaker 1: bucket list career moment for me, just being able to
Speaker 1: use this business that I have built off the back
Speaker 1: of fucking starting YouTube videos to the point where I
Speaker 1: got to, you know, fly seven customers to spend three
Speaker 1: days with us and treat them like influencers. I just
Speaker 1: think that's a massive royal flush for.
Speaker 3: Me for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a Royal flush. Yeah, for sure. Loved
Speaker 2: that and so my third and final Royal Flush of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Going back to music again, going back
Speaker 2: to Sabrina Carpenter, it actually would have been her at Coachella.
Speaker 2: I think that we saw so much, so many sorry
Speaker 2: viral videos come out of her Coachella performance. Obviously we
Speaker 2: got espresso from her Coachella performance, and I think that
Speaker 2: really solidified her. So in the same way that you
Speaker 2: were like Addison Ray and.
Speaker 1: London drinking, I reckon like, I don't know if it'll
Speaker 1: be next Coachella that Addison Ray plays, but maybe the
Speaker 1: one after, because I will say she went on stage
Speaker 1: with Charlie XCX and Troice of Art.
Speaker 3: Did you see that?
Speaker 1: You can tell she doesn't have the confidence on the
Speaker 1: stage yet, Like she seems nervous in some parts. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if she'll be at Coachella twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: but maybe the one after.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Also, maybe just has a bit of imposter syndrome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon for sure she would feel like a
Speaker 1: fishy out of water, like being a TikToker and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden and you're hanging out with all
Speaker 1: these fucking celebs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be wild for sure.
Speaker 3: But yours was Sabrina at Coachella.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think like we got such a big
Speaker 2: you know, there was just such a big response online
Speaker 2: from her, and it really solidified her as an artist.
Speaker 2: And I even, as I said earlier in the year,
Speaker 2: when I saw the Errors tour, I was like, not
Speaker 2: a huge Sabrina. I mean, Sabrina got canceled at our show.
Speaker 2: But the other show I went to, I was like,
Speaker 2: it's too hard. I can't sit out here and watch
Speaker 2: this Sabrina girl around and sing her songs. So I
Speaker 2: went and got a hot dog on sat inside and
Speaker 2: I'm like kicking myself that I didn't enjoy Sabrina Carpenter
Speaker 2: because I didn't really know her, and now she's one
Speaker 2: of my favorite artists. And probably I mean, at the
Speaker 2: time of recording, Spotify Rap hasn't quite come out yet, but.
Speaker 3: I remember that came out last year. I was like,
Speaker 3: mine's rigged for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so true, it's coming out. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: think it's only a couple days away, so we'll probably
Speaker 2: be able to do our Spotify raps. In a MA episodes,
Speaker 2: he probably would have, oh my god, it's so confusing.
Speaker 2: We're coming to you from back in time. But you've
Speaker 2: probably already heard the episode where we discuss our Spotify rap.
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming she will be up well. And truly,
Speaker 2: if Espresso isn't my number one played song of the year,
Speaker 2: I will be very surprised. But yeah, Sabrina Comenta at
Speaker 2: Coachella and just her whole career trajectory in general, the
Speaker 2: concerts as well, the juno positions. You know, there's so
Speaker 2: much virality from her. She's really killing it. So yeah,
Speaker 2: love Well my.
Speaker 1: Third Royal flush of the year, and there could be
Speaker 1: so many more. But I'm going to stick with the
Speaker 1: music theme as well. Now I don't know how long
Speaker 1: ago it was, but on the pod I was raving
Speaker 1: about Tate McCrae And this was a while.
Speaker 3: Ago now I think, yeah, and I actually remember something, Matt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what you're going to say that.
Speaker 3: You said that you didn't really like her.
Speaker 4: Oh I didn't say.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I said I didn't really like her.
Speaker 2: I don't really care for her, but I did rebut against.
Speaker 2: I remember you being like, she's gonna be the next
Speaker 2: Britney Spears and I went, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 1: And I remember were one day we were downstairs in
Speaker 1: the lobby waiting to come up here and I just
Speaker 1: listened to like a holy of her songs on the way.
Speaker 1: I was like, Matt, I've been listening to this Tate
Speaker 1: mccraig girl, Like have you seen this or whatever? And
Speaker 1: You're like, eh, yeah, I know, poop on her.
Speaker 2: I went, nah, she's not going to be anything special.
Speaker 2: Well you made me my words, Yeah I have.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: I know it's like it's super similar to the whole
Speaker 1: Addison Ray thing again, Like I just feel like proud
Speaker 1: watching these girls, like and I've seen like all of
Speaker 1: Tate mccray's stuff that she's done since childhood, Like, she's
Speaker 1: done dancing.
Speaker 3: She was do you know she was on so you
Speaker 3: think you can dance?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was on so you think you can dance?
Speaker 1: She's done so much and I'm just loving her, just
Speaker 1: flooding my FYP over the last few months with her dancing,
Speaker 1: like her dancing is fucking unmatched, and like her hair
Speaker 1: when she dances and the hair's fucking dancing. I don't know,
Speaker 1: She's just killing it. And I think also she will
Speaker 1: be a Coachella at some stage as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I would say that Tate probably has
Speaker 2: a better chance than Addison only because Tate is already
Speaker 2: doing sold out arenas around the world.
Speaker 1: Agree, and her dancing is just amazing, Like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: love a singer that does a full choreographed dance as well.
Speaker 2: I will say, though, lip syncing off the charts, come on, babe,
Speaker 2: it's really obvious, especially with that headmc that she wears,
Speaker 2: like the Britney Spears headmark that she wears.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 1: Probably because she's dancing too much, like that she can't
Speaker 1: dance well, But.
Speaker 2: I'm happy for you. To dance. Don't pretend you're singing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know your mouth dance, go for your life, because
Speaker 2: she does some fun dance breaks where she passes the
Speaker 2: microphone to a backup dancer and then goes for it. Yeah. Cool,
Speaker 2: But like I just kind of it's just so obvious
Speaker 2: when an artist lip syncs in this day and age, and.
Speaker 3: So Taylor lip sync sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah she does, and I've actually clocked how to figure
Speaker 2: out when and where she doesn't have. I spoken about
Speaker 2: that on the podcast before. If not, I was gonna
Speaker 2: make a video about it, but then I thought I
Speaker 2: didn't want to start a shit storm. But she's actually
Speaker 2: so obvious, and once you figure out when she isn't
Speaker 2: isn't lip syncing, it's actually really obviously tells her on
Speaker 2: the errors to her. I noticed that if she's genuinely singing,
Speaker 2: the microphone is really close to her mouth. It's actually
Speaker 2: touching her lips most of the time, and that's her
Speaker 2: real voice. As soon as she starts lip syncing, she
Speaker 2: actually pulls the microphone away to like fifteen twenty centimeters
Speaker 2: away from her mouth, and it's really obvious. It's like
Speaker 2: she doesn't know she's doing it. It's like a subconscious thing.
Speaker 2: But it's like when she knows she's singing, she's got
Speaker 2: to have it right up at her mouth, and then
Speaker 2: when she is lip syncing to catch.
Speaker 1: Her ross wondered by the way, like when artists do
Speaker 1: lip sync and fair enough, like no one can fucking
Speaker 1: sing for three hours straight and dance and perform for
Speaker 1: three hours. Why don't they do a recording like in
Speaker 1: a studio or whatever, and that's what they play out,
Speaker 1: but it's it's like seems and sounds raw, do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like Britney Spears, for example, would
Speaker 1: just not that she's performing anymore, but you would just
Speaker 1: lip sync to her albums, like just to the songs
Speaker 1: that are on the album, the full studio like Perfection,
Speaker 1: Like why don't they go in the studio and do
Speaker 1: like some live recordings, they can tweak them a little bit,
Speaker 1: but so they still sound really natural. So then it
Speaker 1: would be harder for us to pick up on if
Speaker 1: they are lip syncing or not, Like why don't they
Speaker 1: do that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, beats me, that's what I would do.
Speaker 2: You'd you be a lip syncer?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Really no?
Speaker 1: I would try to sing, like but then if for
Speaker 1: a few songs I was going to go into lip syncing.
Speaker 1: I'd make it a studio recorded raw that's just slightly
Speaker 1: edited but not really.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm also like, I mean, I know, again here's me
Speaker 2: switching up halfway through a segment, but I know. I
Speaker 2: just was like, get over the lip syncing tape, McCray.
Speaker 4: Bit.
Speaker 2: I also have to say that why are we so
Speaker 2: hyper fixated on the lip syncing aspect? Because I guess
Speaker 2: a concert is so there's so many aspects. There's so
Speaker 2: many aspects to the changing your main mind, so many
Speaker 2: aspects to the whole thing. Even if Tate McCrae is
Speaker 2: lip sinking at this part, can't I enjoy a different
Speaker 2: aspect of the contents?
Speaker 1: Like she's so out of breath, I would be too.
Speaker 1: I walk up four steps to get to the door
Speaker 1: at no over here and unpuffed, doing a whole dance,
Speaker 1: no thanks.
Speaker 3: And still making sure you look good, like making sure
Speaker 3: you look good?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: Fuck me?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, jump in, jump in Hannah, last episode of
Speaker 2: the year, jump in your final coming to add to this,
Speaker 2: so in your cam I was.
Speaker 5: Just gonna say that, like, as a big Addison Ray fan,
Speaker 5: like you've got your studio artists, and then you've got
Speaker 5: your live performance on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So she was on the Sweat Tour, people were like,
Speaker 5: she can't sing, blah blah blah. That's not the appeal
Speaker 5: of Adison Ray. The appeal of her is her fun,
Speaker 5: little vibey, fucking paparazzi shots, and her really good music videos.
Speaker 5: I don't need her live vocals.
Speaker 3: On the stage, I agree. I just need her.
Speaker 5: Being cute little Addison Ray. Yeah, but if I'm going
Speaker 5: to a Gaga concert, I want vocals.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: If I'm seeing Taylor, who's written all of her songs,
Speaker 5: she's done playing the guitar, playing the piano, I need
Speaker 5: the live vocals. But if I'm seeing fucking Tate McCrae,
Speaker 5: or if I'm saying little Addie Ray, yeah, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agreed.
Speaker 1: And I can see Addison Ray not being like an
Speaker 1: arena girl, and if she is, it's going to be
Speaker 1: like lip singing and it's all about the show.
Speaker 3: I don't care. She's a good dancer.
Speaker 5: If she never performs live in her career, she can
Speaker 5: slay be one of my favorite singers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but see that's what they Katy Perry do you
Speaker 2: remember Katie Perry's first tour was the was the California
Speaker 2: Dreams Tour. Any circus trick they could have done, they did.
Speaker 2: She had quick changes on stage, she had magic tricks.
Speaker 2: She came out of the stage, she flew across the stage,
Speaker 2: she did this, she did that. They had costume changes,
Speaker 2: fairy floss, fucking backup dancers doing cartwheels to distract you
Speaker 2: from the fact that her voice was not very strong
Speaker 2: at that point in their career. But she had what
Speaker 2: we've spoken about. We spoke about that album, that first album.
Speaker 2: She released, hit after hit after hit after hit. She
Speaker 2: had so many hits. There was so much money to make,
Speaker 2: but she hadn't trained her live vocals enough to actually
Speaker 2: sing well. So they had to distract the audience with
Speaker 2: fucking lollipops and giant cats and fucking do you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? So yeah, Addison Ray could definitely.
Speaker 4: They look at the bloodish stage. You know, she's got
Speaker 4: candy cane tits spinning around and fireworks coming out of
Speaker 4: fucking ass. So it's like, you gotta do these things.
Speaker 4: And you know what, I take back what I said.
Speaker 4: As long as you're putting on a fucking show. I
Speaker 4: don't care if you're sinking or not, and I'll probably
Speaker 4: change my mind again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I'm wishing another life. I was a pop star me.
Speaker 1: Too the life I genuinely am a pop star.
Speaker 3: I am Addison Ray what a many week girl? Take see?
Speaker 3: I can sing like Tatemcrat.
Speaker 2: If I could sing, I would be unstoppable because look,
Speaker 2: I've got the fashion. I could easily wear the things
Speaker 2: Lady Gaga's wearing. You know, you could no budget for it,
Speaker 2: but I could make it myself. If a tried paper Mashe.
Speaker 2: If I could sing, the songs would be a hit.
Speaker 2: I'm actually a great songwriter. I could do that.
Speaker 3: Why don't we sign up as a duet then? Because
Speaker 3: I think I can sing and.
Speaker 2: Dance okay, and I could just be the Jack Anton
Speaker 2: off to your Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3: You can write the songs and I'll sing them.
Speaker 2: Oh but it's hard for me to take a back
Speaker 2: seat to the limelight, isn't it. You know?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Then you could make just as much money and you
Speaker 3: have to do less work.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: See, I'm not about money. I'm about fame. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: admit that. I'm about fame, not man, I could.
Speaker 3: Be you could be the j you could be the DJ.
Speaker 3: You'd be up on the DJ. I'll sing and dance
Speaker 3: at the front.
Speaker 2: I thinkiety is more important to me than the funds
Speaker 2: in my bank account. Honestly, who cares for money? But
Speaker 2: because fame can get your free stuff anyway, you know.
Speaker 4: True.
Speaker 2: I don't think Taylor's is paying for much, surely because
Speaker 2: everyone's just thrown stuff at her for free. True, surely.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'm a pop star in another life. When
Speaker 1: they said Britney Spears is biopics coming out and they
Speaker 1: need someone to play it, I'm like I could. That's
Speaker 1: how falsely confident I'm I'm me.
Speaker 3: I'll play her. Never acted in my life, but I
Speaker 3: could do it nice.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll put that on the manifestation board for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Then last year actor dance. Okay, just yes,
Speaker 2: yacht No, that's what we're manifesting for twenty twenty five. Sorry,
Speaker 2: can be a pop star in twenty twenty six? Okay,
Speaker 2: you have them too old, No, twenty twenty five, we're
Speaker 2: manifesting a yacht scrollers. Let's all manifest together Kumbaya and
Speaker 2: have a fabulous New Year's Eve. Everyone, no matter how
Speaker 2: you're celebrating tonight. Be gay, be safe, be gay.
Speaker 3: Be slay you know what, be safe, gaystlay.
Speaker 2: What a great way to end the year, manifesting for
Speaker 2: all of you whatever you'd like.
Speaker 3: Yes, but you can't be a pop star like us.
Speaker 2: No, and no yachts don't manifest any yachts and we
Speaker 2: need that energy.
Speaker 3: Something different to what we have picked. Okay, be original.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks for listening to us scrollers, not only
Speaker 2: this episode but all bloody year. We made it through
Speaker 2: another year together. Here's to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: We can make the really lame joke now that everyone
Speaker 1: makes it New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, see you next year. Next year, we'll see
Speaker 2: on Friday for an episode of Close Friends. Sorry, you
Speaker 2: got to wait till next year to that one. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Jela better let you go. There's a firework coming out
Speaker 2: of my ass.