Sweetest Pie

*Todd plays "Sweetest Pie" on his piano.*

**MEGAN THEE STALLION & DUA LIPA - SWEETEST PIE
A pop song review**

**Todd**: Dave Meyers must be stopped.

*Video for "Sweetest Pie"*
**Todd (VO)**: Sorry, you don't even know who that is. That's a bad opening, let me start over.

**Todd**: OK, so, uh... I've been wrapped up in *[Clip of "Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 2021"]* other longer videos, and I haven't reviewed a new song in a while, which is, you know, the whole *[Picture of Todd's YouTube channel with a circle around the subscribe button and text under it saying "GET TODD TO 500K SUBS!"]* reason I started this entire channel. And I feel kind of bad about that, but, conveniently there hasn't been any new songs to cover anyway. *[Picture of Billboard article titled "Glass Animals' 'Heat Waves' Tops Hot 100 For Fourth Week, Doja Cat's 'Woman' Hits Top 10"]* The charts are always a little slow after Christmas, but by this time last year, *[Clip of "Driver's License" by...]* Olivia Rodrigo had already shaped the entire landscape. Right now, there is just nothing going on.

*Clip of "Heat Waves"*
**Todd (VO)**: The number one hits of 2022 are that mediocre indie rock song that's been lingering like a bad odor for almost two years, and, *[Clip of "We Don't Talk About Bruno"]* before that, a song from a goddamn Disney musical.

**Carolina Gaitan, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, and Rhenzy Feliz**: We don't talk about Bruno, no, no...
*Picture of an article titled "'Encanto', 'Bruno' Remain No. 1 on Album and Song Charts, as Radio Finally Starts Adding Disney Single"*
**Todd (VO)**: And the radio is so desperate for new music right now that they're actually playing it.

**Todd**: I mean, yeah, it's a good catchy tune. [*Clip of "We Don't Talk About Bruno"*] It's also, A, a show tune, not a pop song, and B, it's for eight-year-olds. Like imagine, *[Clip of a Boyz II Men song]* in 1994, if instead of Boyz II Men, top 40 was stuck playing *[Clip of...]* "I Just Can't Wait to be King". That's the level of desperate we're at right now. Well, I'm getting kind of impatient, too. So I told myself that I was going to review the next big song, whatever it was. The next big event single. [*Video of a curtain opening*] You know, the kind of thing that's so important, it gets announced ahead of time to build up hype before it drops. And about a week ago, we got it.

*Picture of Megan Thee Stallion's Instagram post showing the cover of "Sweetest Pie"*
**Todd (VO)**: Big announcement on Instagram, there's gonna be a big new collab from Dua Lipa and Megan Thee Stallion, *[Clip of behind the scenes footage for the music video of "Sweetest Pie"]* two of the hottest stars alive, and two artists I'm a huge fan of, complete with a mega budget video from it. *[Picture of a poster showing the cover of "Sweetest Pie" on a wall outside]* I saw a poster for it at a stop light the other day. That's what I'm talking about, the real shit, the big pop.

**Todd**: So, let's get that first towering pop single of the year. *[Picture of the cover of "Sweetest Pie"]* It's called... *[long pause]* "Sweetest Pie". *[long pause]* OK. Well... *[Clip of behind the scenes footage for the music video of "Sweetest Pie"]* To understand where this song fits in the modern pop landscape, we have to look at the careers of both artists as they have navigated through-- Why the fuck is it called Sweetest Pie. *[Picture of the cover of "Sweetest Pie"]* Why. Why, why, why. I hate it already. Immediately, I'm-- *[pause]* I'm getting ahead of myself. We should give it a fair shot. Why don't we give it a listen first.

*Video for "Sweetest Pie"*
**Todd**: Dave Meyers. You.