The Lizard Review

Will this year's MTV Video Music Awards be, as the kids say, a "flop summit"? Following a lukewarm eight months of music for 2024, one could say it wouldn't necessarily be surprising...breakdown all of the nominees for this year's award show with me, including some Taylor Swift ts12 predicting (of course) and some ranting and raving about how excessive lawn mowing is ruining the earth. THANK YOU! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thelizardreview.substack.com/subscribe [https://thelizardreview.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

One of the most important rituals of any stan is the process of "ranking" things. Anything and everything. Outifts, albums, lead singles, cats, romantic partners, and, of course, songs. Judging by the title of the episode you may be thinking you are about to experience yet another one such ranking - from the top at number one, all the way to the bottom. Sadly, this is not the case. Consider this my official retirement from attempting to rank even just my personal favorite Taylor Swift songs. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thelizardreview.substack.com/subscribe [https://thelizardreview.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

A question that haunts every single person about at least one band or artist that they used to love : what happened? In the longest episode of The Lizard Review yet, I go through four different examples of four VERY different artists who all have only one thing in common - they once were considered great artists, and now no longer are. Some of them become cheesy, some of them sell out, some of them grow up, some of them turn evil, and some of them just simply cannot recreate the magic that made them great in the first place. There are some hot takes in this episode, but I'm standing on business... This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thelizardreview.substack.com/subscribe [https://thelizardreview.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The latest in my series about the albums that made me into who I am - this is about an album that made me feel very far away from wherever I didn't want to be when I was a kid. It's an album that made me dream of beaches and oceans and piers and highways along the coast that I had never been to before, an album that made me feel like life was sunnier than it seemed, and most importantly, an album that has the only song I've ever found that I actually like that has MY name in it. It's another one of the albums that means the absolute most to me, and it's one of the few on the list that was written by a man. Playlist on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jL3v8fvtfQljBZPUa641T?si=GiEZVVNiQvKX27FbAj5xwQ]// Apple Music [https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/soco-and-jacks-mannequin-essentials/pl.u-KVXBl7VIzYb7ar] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thelizardreview.substack.com/subscribe [https://thelizardreview.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The 4th of July is many things...the most important is that it's a celebration of the day I got married, but the SECOND most important thing is that it's a celebration of the start of summertime. And what more perfect way to kick off summer than doing a lyrical analysis of Taylor Swift's best summer song - Cruel Summer. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thelizardreview.substack.com/subscribe [https://thelizardreview.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]