Episode 83

American Groove - #83 LMFAO In Da House

In this episode Karissa and I take a nostalgic trip back to the late 2000s and early 2010s. Reminiscing about the music and culture that defined our younger years. We kicked things off, with a lively discussion about the iconic party vibes of LMFAO. Also, other artist's like Pitbull and Miley Cyrus. Who shaped the soundtrack of our high school days. We got the vibes, memories, and connecting these tunes to our coming-of-age experiences.

We also delved into how these musical icons have evolved over the years. Reflecting on how the anthems of our youth. Which influenced our tastes, and perceptions of music today. Also, we explored the broader impact of these artists. On our personal lives, and cultural trends we gravitated towards. Making this the perfect blend of personal reflection. Bringing pop culture critique from the 2010s. Tune in and insert the CD, hear the humor, and jam of LMFAO. Cause it's all about the music that moved us to say 'it's a party in the U.S.A".

The host of American groove is Karissa Andrews. A licensed aesthetician, makeup artist and lover of pugs. The best part is that you can check out her work on Instagram: 

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Karissa's name for the week is "yes"

Transcript

00:00.04

yes

Ain't no stopping. Yes. Like, but people like songs where you can kind of sing along. Like you can sing the chorus or whatever.

00:06.50

lostinthegroove

Okay.

00:08.80

yes

Like those songs are really catchy because like people can sing along. So that song in particular, which I would say most people don't know, but some people in your generation know what LMFAO is because it was popular when you guys were like kids.

00:24.05

lostinthegroove

Yeah, when I was in high school, are you kidding me? Like Pitbull, M&M, LMFAO, Chris Brown.

00:26.23

yes

Yeah. When you're like young. Yeah.

00:31.07

lostinthegroove

um

00:32.07

yes

So somehow LMFAO is like, hi I realized that like people of your generation like do know what it was because it was popular when they were in like junior high or like even like fifth, sixth grade or something like that.

00:39.58

lostinthegroove

Yeah. Yeah.

00:45.58

yes

So I'm like, oh, okay, cool.

00:45.63

lostinthegroove

I, I, I literally, I've got been called, like, so like, I'm in a school full of 18 year olds.

00:48.13

yes

So that translated.

00:54.13

lostinthegroove

Like, I'm not gonna raise 18, like, you know, 18, 19, but I'm 25. And some of us are like 25, 26, 28. and we feel old, okay?

01:03.16

yes

yeah

01:04.00

lostinthegroove

Cause there's shit that we're used to, like stuff that we're like, we've been around and like been a part of and stuff.

01:09.04

yes

Yeah.

01:11.30

lostinthegroove

And they have no idea. They're like, Oh my God, like that's so old school. And I'm like, Oh my God, don't make me feel old right now.

01:19.36

yes

I was saying the thing that I really appreciate about the younger generation

01:19.53

lostinthegroove

ah

01:25.31

yes

is that they don't do as much sugarcoating. They have a lot more like realism, like and there isn't a lot of like they need shit sugarcoated as much. like I feel like back when I was 16, 18, we didn't just accept that like the whole world was like bullshit like we we kind of i mean that's a terrible thing to say but if you get what i mean like the younger generation seems to be a little bit more down to earth like they seem to be more like yeah it's not everybody but the ones that i've been around like they seem to have a little bit more like reality happening but yeah not always but i guess i would just say like

01:54.19

lostinthegroove

Okay,

02:16.76

yes

they can see the bullshit a little bit better than I remember people being able to see bullshit or not when I was young.

02:24.96

lostinthegroove

it's really

02:25.38

yes

It wasn't as common to be able to see the bullshit.

02:27.19

lostinthegroove

It's really weird. There's like almost where you have two sides because technically people will call me Gen Z. But realistically, I'm what you call like early Gen Z.

02:39.61

yes

Hello?

02:41.52

lostinthegroove

to like:

03:06.96

yes

I'm an elder millennial.

03:10.04

lostinthegroove

You're late millennial, honey. You're like 88.

03:13.07

yes

Yeah, an elder millennial.

03:15.69

lostinthegroove

Oh, yeah.

03:16.99

yes

Elder millennial.

03:17.11

lostinthegroove

Late.

03:19.74

yes

That's it.

03:19.97

lostinthegroove

You're not a baby millennial.

03:23.42

yes

Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. I don't know.

03:25.12

lostinthegroove

Yeah, you have you have to but you don't have to been born like 79 or 80. To be like early millennial, but those that's just fucking cocaine, Porsche, you know, model, wife, life.

03:39.83

lostinthegroove

Nah. Nah.

03:44.71

lostinthegroove

But then again, Maybe. Yes.

03:52.28

lostinthegroove

I want to fail. See what I did there?

03:55.67

yes

Yes.

03:57.27

lostinthegroove

It works.

03:57.48

yes

hat I had so much fun in like:

04:03.30

lostinthegroove

Hmm.

04:10.38

yes

Yeah, like:

04:21.95

yes

There were a lot of bands that were really fun, but they were definitely really entertaining.

04:25.06

lostinthegroove

For me, for me at the time, like was definitely One Direction. Like we were, no, like, because like, yeah, like One Direction was like really, really big.

04:32.26

yes

Okay, okay.

04:36.24

lostinthegroove

the time, I think it was like:

04:50.88

yes

Yeah. How do you get your career off, by the way? Is it just like enough of like this?

04:57.06

lostinthegroove

oh You're talking about Miley or Billy because there's two different generations.

04:59.51

yes

No, you were just saying like her career really got off. She got her career off. I'm like, oh, God, like.

05:04.55

lostinthegroove

Oh Yeah, yeah, she jerked it like she jerked it all the way to fucking Venus Pre but pre her psycho break and then she lost her voice and now she sounds like mixture of

05:09.44

yes

Yeah, party in the USA was fun. It's fun to think of Miley Cyrus like just. Yeah.

05:21.45

yes

Party in the USA.

05:23.76

lostinthegroove

Yeah, now she kind of sounds like Carly Rae, she sounds like Carly Rae Jaspison, but like almost like Willie Nelson combined.

05:25.28

yes

I like it.

05:33.10

yes

Do you remember Macy Grey?

05:36.05

lostinthegroove

Yeah!

05:36.53

yes

Yeah.

05:37.25

lostinthegroove

Yeah, damn, that was good, that Cole voice, you know, like the...

05:41.13

yes

Macy Grey was good. I want to remember like some of the words from like the Macy Grey song because it's

05:47.31

lostinthegroove

They were, they were, I remember they were very poetic.

05:48.53

yes

if you can yeah If you can mimic it, it's really funny. um I'll do it just for laughs.

05:54.42

lostinthegroove

Well, it's really hilarious because we talk about this back and forth, like, particularly, i I'm from New York, but so many tell so many people tell me, like, I have that, like, southern tang to the way I talk, and I don't realize that until I start listening to my damn voice, and I'm just like, Lord, Lord, Lordy Lord.

06:04.85

yes

Oh.

06:15.86

lostinthegroove

You're pulling up the...

06:16.53

yes

Dude, I found it. ah Remember she she sings try?

06:19.12

lostinthegroove

You found it.

06:22.85

yes

So she's like, I try to walk away and I stumble. oh

06:27.66

lostinthegroove

Ashton bow I can't do it. I can't do it You need a background She's got this life it is it's like

06:31.43

yes

It's true. My world crumbles when I am not with you. Yeah, no, it's it's really good. I try to walk away and I stumble.

06:48.03

yes

so It's beautiful. She has a couple Christmas songs that are really, really good too, but like that's what's great is like certain artists can make like a whole...

06:59.88

yes

like career out of just having a unique voice. I mean, she does have a good voice. Like she does hit all of the notes. Like people could say like, oh, her voice is, you know, screwed up.

07:10.51

yes

But to actually be able to hit the notes.

07:11.32

lostinthegroove

Who, Miley?

07:13.99

yes

Well, Miley hits all the notes, but Macy Gray, Macy Gray hits the notes. But Miley, I mean, shit, they might.

07:18.06

lostinthegroove

Oh, yeah.

07:20.65

yes

I don't correct that stuff nowadays, but she is professionally trained and she has sang her whole life. So I wouldn't be surprised if she's actually hitting them notes herself.

07:30.65

lostinthegroove

Well, you know, you take somebody like even like Celine Dion, where for me personally, that lady has been a little over the top, but that's OK. It's Celine Dion.

07:40.10

yes

I heard a lot of good things about her.

07:40.43

lostinthegroove

well But when she got up in Paris and she performed, it was just, you know, that shows resilience. I mean, because she was diagnosed with a physically physically crippling disease, but yet has managed to be able to still sing very similar to her early career.

08:06.37

lostinthegroove

It's wild. I mean, you know, when you hear Celine Dion, you know it's Celine Dion.

08:09.75

yes

Yeah.

08:11.96

lostinthegroove

Come on. like Come on.

08:14.65

yes

Yeah, Celine Dion is better than almost anybody.

08:15.03

lostinthegroove

like

08:18.81

yes

Like when it comes to like vocal range and performance and ability.

08:21.71

lostinthegroove

Powerful. She's a powerful voice.

08:23.85

yes

um You brought up the word resilience, the actual definition of resilience is the ability to bounce back. um So I think that's kind of cool.

08:37.25

lostinthegroove

She did bounce back.

08:39.38

yes

Right.

08:39.88

lostinthegroove

She had to. I mean, she said, she literally said that like, I don't have anything else to live for. Like, this is, this is my life. This is who I am.

08:50.71

lostinthegroove

This is what makes me me.

08:52.54

yes

How did you find this out about Celine Dion? Like, did you watch a thing?

08:54.72

lostinthegroove

I watched the doc, I watched the interview.

08:56.06

yes

Yeah. So is there a documentary about Celine Dion, like on Netflix or something?

08:57.34

lostinthegroove

was I don't believe so. I've watched the ABC interview. um I've seen like behind the scenes and things.

09:10.35

lostinthegroove

She's very professional when she talks.

09:12.33

yes

Yeah.

09:14.23

lostinthegroove

Very similar much to Audrey Hepburn. You know, if you like, I want to give a comparison. Like Celine Dion, kind of like the way she talks, it's kind of similar how Audrey used to respond. But it's it's really wild to like hear her perspective and her like mental approach to all of this. you know I always really find it fascinating because like pete like we literally started this conversation with memorable people that no matter where you are, you're like, okay, I know what that is. like Most people know who that is.

09:50.37

lostinthegroove

You know what I mean?

09:51.53

yes

Yeah.

09:51.59

lostinthegroove

It's like, it's a memorable voice that you just know immediately.

09:56.91

yes

Oh, I forgot that she was Canadian.

09:59.99

lostinthegroove

Who? Celine Dion?

10:01.52

yes

Yeah.

10:02.31

lostinthegroove

Yeah, she's Canadian. She speaks French.

10:04.45

yes

Oh, I don't know.

10:05.66

lostinthegroove

Mm-hmm.

10:06.88

yes

I knew that she speaks a different language, but it didn't like like click with me real quick that it was French.

10:12.11

lostinthegroove

Do you know? Okay, do you know what I realized also for myself? Because when I would like, because I send them for like shits and giggles, I just like, you know, I i go on GarageBand and I make songs and stuff. Nothing real or anything. But I have been experimenting with French, particularly with making French lyrics. And...

10:29.90

lostinthegroove

My vocal range is completely different with French, okay? It's weird. I'm able to hit higher notes, stay longer with certain points and balance back and forth than I can in English. And that's something that's kind of wild to think about. Like if you have a singer like Celine Dion or or um there are others, I just can't think of any.

10:55.69

yes

Yeah, I could see that like, I feel like yeah, I could see that like different, like having the freedom of like,

10:59.57

lostinthegroove

they speak to like it's not just one but two.

11:11.54

yes

having the freedom of a different language. that isn't like your most common language for yourself, like your first language. Trying to sing in a second language, I think could give you a little bit more freedom as far as like the way that you sing it.

11:28.37

lostinthegroove

I think so too.

11:31.72

yes

I would worry about my pronunciation, like without like talking to a professional, I would worry about like if I'm pronouncing everything right.

11:35.41

lostinthegroove

Well, for me, it's very easy to like use a program like chat, GPT, or Google Translate and kind of go back and forth and kind of check. like ah do Because my father was French, like he was French and Moroccan, and I've kind of been around French to a certain degree, where I don't speak it at all, but I kind of have a good idea of how things are pronounced.

12:03.74

yes

well

12:03.75

lostinthegroove

Like I'm kind of at a point where if I can see a phrase in French and somebody tells me ah how it's read, I i remember the next time, usually to read it again, and I know how to pronounce it.

12:14.39

yes

I'll just say that I studied French before I went to France and I memorized all kinds of stuff. you When I got there, everything that I thought I knew was complete trash. Everything was way more complicated than I ever imagined it would be.

12:33.14

lostinthegroove

it always is.

12:34.42

yes

That's how it was for me. Like I was like, Oh, okay. That's not how you ask for water.

12:42.24

lostinthegroove

Well, what I the the thing that I learned with chat GPT, which I didn't know before, was particularly with French, Moroccan, like Moroccan, French, we have different pronunciations.

12:42.74

yes

Like I was like, what the fuck?

12:56.03

lostinthegroove

So like, we say, ju not it's

12:57.32

yes

Yeah.

13:01.25

lostinthegroove

There's like a very hard Z at the very beginning.

13:02.55

yes

yeah

13:04.86

lostinthegroove

There's no P's. It's all B's. So it's B not P.

13:11.18

yes

People from France would say that British English and American English are like two different Englishes.

13:11.43

lostinthegroove

Or

13:18.64

lostinthegroove

They kind of are. i You know, I have a friend that's in the UK and a lot of the times when I talk to her, I use British English with her on the phone.

13:21.02

yes

Yeah.

13:29.22

lostinthegroove

You know, when I talk about like my car being in the sort in the service garage, because if I say garage, she doesn't understand me. You know what I mean?

13:38.22

yes

It's like it's more proper the way that they structure things, I understand. And they teach them British English, so they find American English more challenging.

13:49.72

lostinthegroove

It's harder for the the thing is when you're having a conversation with someone that's British, if they're not used to American words, they have to think. Sometimes they don't. So they kind of like miss what you just said in a sentence. so And then you can't get your point across. That's what I'm trying to say, you know. And that can be really fucking annoying when you're trying to have a like a conversation with somebody.

14:17.56

yes

I just couldn't understand anything. I did a terrible job, uh, trying to speak to people. and I tried, you know, and I think that's what you're supposed to do, but I did okay on a couple of things, but for the most part, no, I just stayed quiet.

14:31.78

lostinthegroove

It's taken me, it's taken me a while, but the wild thing is sometimes because I have it in my brain, I will randomly use the British English without even thinking about it. Like there are times I'll just be like Zed or where's the trolley, you know, or where's the way out.

14:50.31

yes

How did your dad learn English?

14:52.87

lostinthegroove

My dad learned English from television and talking to people.

14:58.71

yes

So they didn't teach it in his school at all.

15:00.83

lostinthegroove

Not really, no. My father spoke French, Arabic, English, Yiddish, and Spanish.

15:12.37

lostinthegroove

Oh, it was hilarious. My dad used to talk to the, used to hire the illegals. People particularly like from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico. He used to come into New York.

15:28.96

lostinthegroove

need to hire them. So after quite some time, he had to learn some Spanish. And my dad just had conversations with these people. And it was just it was just so fun, you know, because like this man like knew so many languages has been through like multiple cultures.

15:47.52

yes

Yeah.

15:48.50

lostinthegroove

There's all those dynamics, you know, andm like kind of tying back to like, if you think about it, you got to have some type of dynamic Grasp if you want to be memorable.

16:04.27

yes

yeah Yeah, it's much more easier to remember people once you like have some unique like flair about them.

16:05.00

lostinthegroove

Right.

16:08.36

lostinthegroove

and

16:14.02

yes

Like it it's what makes people memorable is like when they open up and like show their unique qualities.

16:22.59

lostinthegroove

People, people forget that Shakira speaks Spanish.

16:27.18

lostinthegroove

Literally.

16:27.56

yes

Yeah, well, I mean, OK, so Celine Dion speaks French Celine Dion is Canadian.

16:31.28

lostinthegroove

Mm hmm.

16:33.50

yes

um I would say, like, do we get to claim Adele? Is America get to claim Adele? Is she from here?

16:41.37

lostinthegroove

She's from the UK.

16:42.63

yes

What the fuck?

16:44.12

lostinthegroove

She's from London.

16:45.42

yes

Who's our most like talented like vocal performer, female wise? I mean, there's Beyonce, but you know.

16:52.36

lostinthegroove

People will say like Sabrina Carpenter, but to be honest, I'm kind of like Taylor Swift.

16:55.94

yes

Yeah, but like a belter like a high, you know? No, she's still not like a ballad performer like a Celine Dion.

17:00.72

lostinthegroove

No,

17:03.95

lostinthegroove

Um, well, it was Aretha Franklin, but she passed away.

17:07.73

yes

Yeah. How are you the Franklin?

17:09.88

lostinthegroove

um

17:10.93

yes

Who's the other one? Diana Ross?

17:12.90

lostinthegroove

Oh, Whitney Houston.

17:16.26

yes

Yes.

17:17.02

lostinthegroove

Whitney Houston.

17:17.21

yes

Yeah. American like powerhouses.

17:20.38

lostinthegroove

You

17:20.74

yes

I guess powerhouse is what I don't know. I don't think Taylor Swift gets to be a powerhouse.

17:24.37

lostinthegroove

of you

17:27.13

yes

You know, like she's not Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift. She's not she's not a ah Celine Dion.

17:34.37

lostinthegroove

She's overrated.

17:36.67

yes

I don't know but there's a difference like between like these women that time and place for I don't know how high people are rating her so I might agree with you too but I do like it like I think I wouldn't really want like a world without oh I would definitely rather go to Amy Winehouse concert you say that like Amy Winehouse sucks or something

17:38.84

lostinthegroove

Oh, um'm I'm gonna say I'm gonna stick on my side. Taylor Swift is 100% overrated but go on.

17:56.24

lostinthegroove

I would rather go to an Amy Winehouse concert that

18:02.93

lostinthegroove

but I guarantee you, like, if Amy... No, Amy Winehouse is awesome. I love Amy Winehouse.

18:09.25

yes

Yeah.

18:10.23

lostinthegroove

That's what I'm saying is, like, if Amy Winehouse was alive right now, Taylor Swift would have no competition. None.

18:18.10

yes

or Yeah, but it's like so you're saying she basically doesn't have competition because Amy Winehouse isn't alive.

18:24.53

lostinthegroove

Come on, like, if Amy...

18:25.70

yes

Amy Winehouse probably didn't suck Beyonce's dick and that's probably why she's dead.

18:30.68

lostinthegroove

No, well, she overdosed.

18:32.58

yes

I know I'm just talking shit.

18:34.26

lostinthegroove

I know, me too. That way she actually did overdose.

18:37.70

yes

I don't, you know, you said they say she did.

18:37.97

lostinthegroove

oh

18:41.18

yes

I don't, I don't believe a damn thing people say when people die. I just have to say that. What's ah the other musician passed away suicide last week?

18:51.21

lostinthegroove

Oh, recently, yeah from wonder yeah, from One Direction.

18:53.93

yes

Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah.

18:56.18

lostinthegroove

Liam Payne.

18:57.98

yes

Mm-hmm.

18:57.99

lostinthegroove

Little Liam Payne? Yeah, it's Liam Payne.

18:59.44

yes

Yeah, that's sad. But who believes it or not? I think it's fucking weird. All of it's weird. People go dead. I don't like any of it.

19:08.98

lostinthegroove

He was a fantastic, um oh my god, he makes Ed Sheeran look like a pornographic pen paraphernalia.

19:11.89

yes

Singer.

19:18.62

lostinthegroove

But it's kind of sad when, yeah I don't like Ed Sheeran, but when you like look at him when you look when you look at like that and he's just gone, you know you just start to like get curious, you're like, the what ifs, because

19:20.61

yes

Like a dildo?

19:36.79

lostinthegroove

e that was alive right now in:

19:49.07

yes

yeah

19:57.13

lostinthegroove

It's just, to Amy Winehouse,

19:57.19

yes

What year? I hear you. I was just wondering if they overlap. What year did Amy Winehouse die?

20:06.06

lostinthegroove

Uh,:

20:11.30

yes

Yeah, I think it's sooner.

20:11.48

lostinthegroove

Was it:

20:17.92

lostinthegroove

And she

20:18.97

yes

Oh, you're right.:

20:28.52

lostinthegroove

was overselling Taylor Swift.

20:32.93

yes

So you're saying that Taylor Swift had Amy Winehouse killed.

20:39.23

lostinthegroove

Possibly.

20:40.41

yes

I'm just fucking around, but I just I wanted to just like edit.

20:41.88

lostinthegroove

Possibly. I mean, it's a great idea.

20:44.87

yes

How about we write, we write some fiction.

20:45.31

lostinthegroove

It's a great idea.

20:49.70

lostinthegroove

And make it, and make it real like our U.S.

20:49.77

yes

Amy Winehouse, Taylor, you're okay, Amy Winehouse's people were trying to kill Taylor Swift is the truth.

20:51.95

lostinthegroove

government FOSU.

20:55.87

lostinthegroove

Whoa.

20:56.83

yes

And then Taylor Swift's people killed Amy Winehouse instead.

20:59.66

lostinthegroove

Check. You know, it's like color war.

21:02.27

yes

That's the twist.

21:03.24

lostinthegroove

It's like color war when you're in you when you're in camp. um You're like, your team's gonna lose. You're like, oh shit, let's kill the other team's leader. And that way, we win. Because without their leader, they lose.

21:21.86

yes

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's really strange. Like I heard a bunch of like contradicting things about Amy Winehouse. Like people would say like all these things about how she's like trouble or whatever, but then they went and they like interviewed like her school and they were like, no, like Amy was fine. and She's like really, really good student. Like we don't even believe that she would ever like get fucked up like that.

21:49.21

lostinthegroove

the thing that I like Okay, the thing that I wanted to point out about Amy that Taylor doesn't have Amy speaks in a way that's within depths. Like when you listen to Amy, it puts you almost in this like trance and you kind of have this like desire for more. I feel like Amy can speak to more people in more an adaptable way. Like I love how Taylor Swift has designed her albums, but she's very much like designed her content around Taylor instead of like

22:28.13

lostinthegroove

venturing into other ideas the way that Amy Winehouse did. And we could have possibly had more if Amy was alive, but she's dead, so.

22:39.42

yes

I think that too much do people take for granted a human being doing everything that Amy was doing and plus Amy was doing it with like a ah genuine, genuine essence that a lot of people don't have.

22:57.63

yes

And so it's much more draining than others.

23:01.77

lostinthegroove

Oh yeah.

23:02.72

yes

But

23:05.43

yes

A lot of Amy's famous songs were covers. Um, she's saying a lot of classic jazz piano.

23:09.60

lostinthegroove

True.

23:17.73

yes

Um, whoever picked out music for her did a damn good job. And if, if she picked out her own music, she's really smart, but they picked out these like specific songs that would definitely work like for her.

23:31.33

lostinthegroove

We're definitely gonna have like that one person.

23:32.30

yes

and then put them all in her key that she needs them in.

23:34.81

lostinthegroove

and We're definitely gonna have that one person that's gonna comment and be like, these people hate Taylor Swift.

23:41.38

yes

I don't mind Taylor Swift.

23:43.15

lostinthegroove

I don't mind her either.

23:43.18

yes

i Do you remember my picture of Taylor Swift in the grocery store?

23:45.10

lostinthegroove

umble

23:49.61

yes

It's my favorite.

23:50.45

lostinthegroove

She probably has never been in a grocery store.

23:51.18

yes

ah taylor Taylor Swift in the grocery store.

23:57.18

yes

Oh, I got a picture of her in a grocery store and she's like staring at the produce and she's like, what the fuck? Like here. Uh, yeah, sorry.

24:10.71

yes

Hold on. Podcasties. Yeah.

24:12.35

lostinthegroove

I am down.

24:12.71

yes

Yeah. Yeah. Ooh.

24:14.19

lostinthegroove

I'm down to my last meat.

24:14.21

yes

I found it.

24:15.33

lostinthegroove

I'm down to my last meat stick.

24:17.54

yes

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So how do I share it with you?

24:22.15

lostinthegroove

um

24:23.20

yes

Um, copy. I'm an elder millennial here.

24:28.39

lostinthegroove

You can you can you can you can text it to me.

24:28.58

yes

I'm working on it. I'm working on it.

24:32.30

yes

Yes. they says yes yes yeah Okay.

24:33.80

lostinthegroove

No.

24:35.83

yes

So you can see she's like, she's in a Whole Foods and she's staring at like the broccoli, basically. And, or like leaks or something.

24:46.78

yes

And she just looks kind of like. oh As though she's never seen food before it's cooked, you know, like that's what I'm saying is like, I don't think that she's ever seen like food produce before it's chopped up.

25:05.17

lostinthegroove

Did somebody like photograph her in the Whole Foods? Is that it or like?

25:10.66

yes

I believe that this is staged. I believe that Whole Foods paid her to come in and be there and pick stuff out.

25:13.04

lostinthegroove

oh

25:20.16

yes

Or she wanted to be seen at a Whole Foods looking like a regular person, but I believe the whole thing is staged. But this is one of my most favorite pictures ever because like i love I love going to the Whole Foods.

25:33.25

lostinthegroove

There's so many.

25:38.42

yes

And this is something that I do. um but her basket is empty as fuck um there's hardly anything in this little there's nothing in her little empty basket and she just i don't know not another one in the polka dot dress i've never seen that but it looks like she eventually puts the basket

25:47.92

lostinthegroove

There isn't anything in it. There's nothing in there.

25:59.00

lostinthegroove

That dress.

26:02.30

lostinthegroove

Down.

26:02.53

yes

oh No, no, she's gone to Whole Foods more than once but the one in the jean shorts is the one that makes me laugh like where I feel like she's looking at like You know either a cucumber or like something like that and she's like I've never seen this not chopped up These two shirts that she has are like very similar and

26:11.79

lostinthegroove

but But she wears...

26:17.72

lostinthegroove

But she wears the same clothes practically in every single picture except like her pants change. It's like her top.

26:29.02

lostinthegroove

Very similar, like they're almost like from the same company.

26:32.56

yes

Oh, they're definitely from the same company. I feel like I've seen them before actually like I kind of know who makes them and to be honest, I think I might actually have. one that that is like that or someone gave it to me and I didn't like the way that it felt or something like that or like I kind of remember like coming encounters with like whatever designer this is um and I could probably find it because like there's just so many pictures of this online that I'm sure somebody spoke about

27:04.52

lostinthegroove

It's just.

27:04.65

yes

this shirt oh look there's another one where okay so there's one where she has like a little bit of black in the shirt on the top there's one where there's red on the top and then there's one where the whole top is striped so she's got like three of these shirts she's probably got more i believe like at that i don't know you feel like at that point you just wear everything like once but i personally would get like

27:11.00

lostinthegroove

Uh huh. Right. Yeah, she does. It's

27:33.05

yes

If I were like really rich, I'd probably get like weird. like I'd probably get like really weird.

27:38.82

lostinthegroove

This is not.

27:38.85

yes

like If people like let me do whatever I wanted, I'd probably like wear like the same like five things like all the time.

27:45.76

lostinthegroove

This is not actually the same. um Like there's been multiple sightings like it seems like she does. Maybe this was.

27:53.26

yes

go to Whole Foods more than once? Yeah.

27:55.06

lostinthegroove

Yeah, like I don't know me.

27:56.13

yes

I don't know. I see it maybe like three or four times. I'm not convinced that she does any of her own shopping. I'm not sure why she's there.

28:04.83

lostinthegroove

She has a reason.

28:06.09

yes

I don't know. I don't know why on earth she would need to go there like at all.

28:07.18

lostinthegroove

And it's schwifty.

28:10.10

yes

I hardly need to go there.

28:14.10

lostinthegroove

and like I sometimes have like those what weird thoughts of, imagine Elton John going to the Air 1 to pick up a smoothie for his fiance. Where else are you gonna find Elton John but an Air 1?

28:29.15

yes

I feel like, do you think that like she goes to the Whole Foods to like play like regular person, like, I'm going to be like a regular person and chop up my own cucumbers.

28:43.65

yes

a

28:44.90

lostinthegroove

yeah I mean, the thing about Taylor Swift is she's so far from being like everybody else. She's so famous. Like, she's super famous.

28:53.49

yes

Yeah. yeah

28:56.04

lostinthegroove

Like, even even the five-year-olds are pointing. They're like, Mommy, is that Taylor Swift? Yes, that is Taylor Swift.

29:02.64

yes

Taylor Wiff.

29:04.03

lostinthegroove

Taylor... They probably don't want to pronounce it, okay?

29:06.36

yes

Taylor Wiff.

29:06.38

lostinthegroove

Like, I'm trying... Tato-wiff or Woof. Tato-wiff.

29:10.80

yes

Taylor.

29:12.45

lostinthegroove

My daughter named Tato-wiff.

29:15.42

yes

taylor

29:16.56

lostinthegroove

My granddaughter named Tadywiff, and my great greatat great great daddy is T-T-T-Wiff.

29:25.56

lostinthegroove

Cool beans. Shit, have we been like recording for a half hour?

29:29.99

yes

Yeah, we did a good job.

29:32.05

lostinthegroove

Yeah, I have no idea what we talked about for the past 30 minutes.

29:33.88

yes

Just pop culture shit. Like basically Celine Dion.

29:37.62

lostinthegroove

LMFAO, yeah.

29:38.57

yes

Yeah. We talked a little bit about like music, music artists.

29:40.07

lostinthegroove

Wow.

29:43.22

lostinthegroove

And we miss Amy.

29:43.48

yes

Yeah.

29:44.69

lostinthegroove

Amy, we miss you, honey. Can you come down from heaven and give us some good shit, please? Like maybe through.

29:49.43

yes

Amy. I really, really enjoyed Amy.

29:50.93

lostinthegroove

Maybe through it.

29:53.82

yes

I really, really needed her at that point in my life. It was really great.

29:59.68

lostinthegroove

It's kind of weird and how like some of the great like even like Linkin Park, like they just.

30:05.10

yes

Yeah, they had a good place.

30:07.03

lostinthegroove

They did, they gave us a good time, you know, as they say, that the good times roll.

30:07.15

yes

Yeah.

30:13.45

lostinthegroove

at the good times roll.

30:15.51

yes

like a dams

30:17.05

lostinthegroove

who So if you want to check out Carissa, you can find her at American Groove and American Groove Pod on Instagram. If you want to check out more of Lost in the Groove, you can find us on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Khutub at Lost in the Groove Pod. So with that, we love you and we will catch you on the next one. Indeed, you need indeed.

30:42.64

lostinthegroove

Peace out motherfuckers.

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Lost in the Groove is my space to explore the real, raw, and unexpected. I started this podcast because I was tired of feeling like nothing ever changes. My therapist once suggested, I write letters to the government to express my frustrations. Then I thought, "Why not create a podcast instead?" Here, I can talk about what I want, with whoever I want, no matter their beliefs. For me, it's about having honest conversations,. Breaking down walls, and getting people to think beyond the surface.

I grew up in a blue-collar family in the suburbs outside New York City, raised as an Orthodox Jew. Leaving the religious community in 2017 was a pivotal moment for me. It allowed me to embrace my identity as an artist, and chart my own path. Who I am today, and what this podcast represents, is deeply tied to my journey. Leaving a community that was a cult; still is. Discovering authenticity, creativity, and independence in myself.

I’m a car enthusiast, an artist, and someone who thrives on creative expression. From old-school rap, and psychedelic rock. To vintage muscle cars and European classics. I’m all about the things that inspire passion.
My co-host, Karissa Andrews, joins me for American Groove. Our segment on stoner culture, and life’s weirder twists. She’s an incredibly talented makeup artist, aesthetician, and candle maker. She brings a spice, pizazz, and realness to every conversation.

This podcast isn’t about chasing fame or conforming to trends, it’s about the experience. I want listener, whether they’re driving home, cooking, or just unwinding. To feel like they’re part of something real. Lost in the Groove is my way of staying true to myself, while connecting with others. learning, and having fun along the way.