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Welcome to five hundred Greatest Songs, a

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podcast based on Rolling Stones hugely

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popular, influential, and sometimes

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controversial list. I'm Britney Spanos.

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And I'm Rob Sheffield. We're here to shed

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light on the greatest songs ever made and

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discover what makes them so great.

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

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and talk about their placement on the Revapped

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twenty twenty one list.

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We'll break down the stories of these songs

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and the stories behind the songs, as

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well as how they've influenced our culture over time.

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We'll also have guests join us, ranging

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from the artists themselves, to the producers

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or simply other writers like ourselves who voted

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on them.

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From classics like Fleetwood Max Dreams

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to The Rawnettes Be My Baby and modern

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day classics like The Killer's Mister Brightside

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and Britney Spears's Baby One More Time.

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We'll also go deep on songs that recently

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changed our world, like Taylor Swift's Blank

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Space, Drake's Hotline Bling,

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or Daddy yankees Gosolina. There's

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so many interesting ways these songs changed

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our culture.

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We spend our lives discussing our favorite

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songs with each other as well as our friends

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and colleagues, and it's been so fun

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digging into them more.

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There's so many fascinating stories that have

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been forgotten, like midnight train to Georgia

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starting with a phone call to Farah Fawcet,

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or how the Yeah Yeah Yeahs inspired

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Kelly Clarkson's banger since You've Been Gone

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and Beyonce's Hold Up. Listen to Rolling

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Stone's five hundred Greatest Songs on the iHeartRadio

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you get your podcasts.