Speaker 1: Welcome to five hundred Greatest Songs, a podcast based on
Speaker 1: Rolling Stones hugely popular, influential, and sometimes controversial list. I'm
Speaker 1: Britney Spanos.
Speaker 2: And I'm Rob Sheffield. We're here to shed light on
Speaker 2: the greatest songs ever made and discover what makes them
Speaker 2: so great.
Speaker 1: Every week, we'll pick a new song from the list
Speaker 1: and talk about their placement on the Revapped twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one list.
Speaker 2: We'll break down the stories of these songs and the
Speaker 2: stories behind the songs, as well as how they've influenced
Speaker 2: our culture over time. We'll also have guests join us,
Speaker 2: ranging from the artists themselves, to the producers or simply
Speaker 2: other writers like ourselves who voted on them.
Speaker 1: From classics like Fleetwood Max Dreams to The Rawnettes Be
Speaker 1: My Baby and modern day classics like The Killer's Mister
Speaker 1: Brightside and Britney Spears's Baby One More Time.
Speaker 2: We'll also go deep on songs that recently changed our world,
Speaker 2: like Taylor Swift's Blank Space, Drake's Hotline Bling, or Daddy
Speaker 2: yankees Gosolina. There's so many interesting ways these songs changed
Speaker 2: our culture.
Speaker 1: We spend our lives discussing our favorite songs with each
Speaker 1: other as well as our friends and colleagues, and it's
Speaker 1: been so fun digging into them more.
Speaker 2: There's so many fascinating stories that have been forgotten, like
Speaker 2: midnight Train to Georgia starting with a phone call to
Speaker 2: Farah Fawcet, or how the Yeah Yeah Yeahs inspired Kelly
Speaker 2: Clarkson's banger since You've Been Gone and Beyonce's Hold Up.
Speaker 2: Listen to Rolling Stone's five hundred Greatest Songs starting on
Speaker 2: March thirteenth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
Speaker 2: you get your podcasts.