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