PODCAST: Chappell Roan sets the 2024 MTV VMAs on fire! (w/Lady Emily)
Our annual look at the VMAs, and they’re weirder than ever but were they actually kind of good?
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@irishspaghetti2
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Millennial is the last generation that got to see when MTV was relevant and an cultural juggernaut
@irishspagetti6565
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
The 35 to 60+ age range remembers the Golden age of MTV
@alizardinyourroom1361
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
I would have preferred Sabrina to just do taste tbh, like the alien bit was my fav and it would've been fun to see it for a whole song
@litlblkhouse
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Goddess, I can't get over the fact that MTV gave Katy Perry their Vanguard Award before they would give it to Gaga or Taylor 😑
@oliverwilliams1244
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
i wanna see 3 Chappell Roan songs on your best of 2024 list at least
@ashen_roses
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
I can't believe this podcast led to me deciding I really liked that American Idol song despite it sounding like the 2024 version of the Idol Finale hit.
@dieSchreckschraube
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
I don't get the Chappell Roan hype at all, her music is so mediocre and boring.
@pacificostudios
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Todd, I've been waiting for you to say something about the Sapphic Pop movement of 2024. It's been a long time since you covered "You Need to Calm Down" and "Me."
@ad-sd-vids5332
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
99% of the people who perform at the vmas, are people the industry want to be famous, and people who want they want to be famous again
And Taylor swift
@Craig-j2e
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
💀
@nicktoons125
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Katy Perry is Al Bundy. She got 5 #1 songs off 1 album from 15 years ago and he scored four touchdowns in one game! Yeah that comparison is apt.
@jmiths
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Todd, how do you feel about After Midnight by Chappell?
@ctsbantifa
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
I don't have anywhere better to put this yet, but I'm calling it now. CARNIVAL is going on the Worst List for 2024 and most likely the top 5 if I could guess.
@neverhowever3231
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
i love that lady emily is here, huge crossover for me specifically
@HoyleNathaniel-j1q
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
566 Legros Curve
@Bismark1815
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
This is very unrelated to the topic of the video but I was thinking that weezers Pinkerton would be a great fit for the trainwreckords series despite the fact it’s beloved now and one of if not their best album at the time of its release it was critically panned, didn’t sell well and did irreparable damage to weezers reputation and music that they arguably still haven’t recovered from thus fulfilling the criteria of an album that ruined their career maybe Todd can judge it from the perspective of a casual listener that liked the blue album and had complete tonal whiplash from Pinkertons harsher sound and didn’t get a lot of the conceptual stuff from the album, just a thought
@theladywiththelegos9371
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Dua Lipa's Houdini is the only Houdini song I want to listen to 💜
@thundercloudss
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Pls do trainwrecords featuring Katy Perry's 143
@pinkcupcake4717
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
The top 10 list this year is going to be LIT.
@johnathonsteeel6922
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
about time for that Warren Zevon one hit wonderland bruv
@mainahgruau6631
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Anitta is in fact very famous in Brazil. Because she's a Brazilian pop star. Crazy how that works.
@Connorb2008
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
When is kpop getting its lorde royals moment?
@lightbright4996
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
This onlay made me feel old
@StarLightNow
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Chappell Roan is going to be the next Katy Perry. They are too similar and I can see 15 years from now all us being like “Wow, what happened?”
@lukeslyfe
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Will you react to Katy Perry 143?
@nicolasdinamarca7764
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
❤
@DanKaschel
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Delight as always. I didn't love Em's new album but man characterizing him as a rangeless has-been reliving his glory days was a disappointingly uncultured take.
On the other hand if he was ever a good for the VMAs he definitely isn't now.
@hatboy7146
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Is Todd's cohost trans? I only listen to Song vs Song once a year, so I'm just using context clues but I'm not sure.
@AndrewBehm
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Relistening here so that I can thank Todd and Lina for always having such interesting guests, I’ve discovered so many creators from Song vs. Song!
Also, get well soon, Lina!
@Godcalledinsicktoday1991
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Ngl, i think katy perry is going to have a renaissance within the next 5 years as the younger gez and oldest gen alphas get older.
@poppslongwalker
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
What SNL skit are you sillybillies parodying?
@fucyeahmakestuff
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Someone on this sounds precisely like David Spade.
@Godcalledinsicktoday1991
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
The other performance i liked in the past 20 years was lady gaga with paparazzi when she ended all bloody
@laexploradoraaaXD
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Katy Perry is weird but she's too culturally evangelical to ever really lean into that in the way that for instance Chappell does because Chappell is authentically herself and Katy has always struggled to be herself.
@TexTheBest
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Anitta is HUGE in Brazil, and I think she has some footprint in spanish latin america, but her efforts in the U.S. are pretty embarassing
@Grabehn42
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
South american here, and Anita is just about the same here, she has that one bit where she shakes her ass on the floor or something, "Anita's move", and that's about it, you don't hear much of her music outside of tiktok. Maybe in Brasil considering she's from there, but couldn't say.
@DerekWrites
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
I appreciated the additional strings on Good Luck Babe. Calling back to her Tiny Desk, Roan's vocals really mesh well with chamber instruments
@SpaceCadet900
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
Watch the party DIE
@TheNeonRabbit
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
She plundered that award
@Stormshine
July 11, 2026 at 3:59 am
"for a second i had a brief fantasy that the VMAs were gonna be relevant again off of this performance alone" – probably not the first to say this, but honestly i think it did do that. my gay little not-really-music-focused corner of social media has been blowing up over this performance, i haven't seen that happen in YEARS