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Speaker 1: Welcome to five hundred Greatest Songs, a podcast based on

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Speaker 1: Rolling Stones hugely popular, influential, and sometimes controversial list. I'm

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Speaker 1: Britney Spanos.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Rob Sheffield. We're here to shed light on

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Speaker 2: the greatest songs ever made and discover what makes them

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Speaker 2: so great.

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Speaker 1: Every week, we'll pick a new song from the list

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Speaker 1: and talk about their placement on the Revapped twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one list.

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Speaker 2: We'll break down the stories of these songs and the

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Speaker 2: stories behind the songs, as well as how they've influenced

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Speaker 2: our culture over time. We'll also have guests join us,

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Speaker 2: ranging from the artists themselves, to the producers or simply

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Speaker 2: other writers like ourselves who voted on them.

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Speaker 1: From classics like Fleetwood Max Dreams to The Rawnettes Be

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Speaker 1: My Baby and modern day classics like The Killer's Mister

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Speaker 1: Brightside and Britney Spears's Baby One More Time.

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Speaker 2: We'll also go deep on songs that recently changed our world,

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Speaker 2: like Taylor Swift's Blank Space, Drake's Hotline Bling, or Daddy

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Speaker 2: yankees Gosolina. There's so many interesting ways these songs changed

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Speaker 2: our culture.

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Speaker 1: We spend our lives discussing our favorite songs with each

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Speaker 1: other as well as our friends and colleagues, and it's

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Speaker 1: been so fun digging into them more.

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Speaker 2: There's so many fascinating stories that have been forgotten, like

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Speaker 2: midnight Train to Georgia starting with a phone call to

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Speaker 2: Farah Fawcet, or how the Yeah Yeah Yeahs inspired Kelly

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Speaker 2: Clarkson's banger since You've Been Gone and Beyonce's Hold Up.

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Speaker 2: Listen to Rolling Stone's five hundred Greatest Songs starting on

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Speaker 2: March thirteenth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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Speaker 2: you get your podcasts.