Sam Sanders

No.

I need to check this out.

Because it's funny.

I heard a song of hers years ago and was like, that kid's got talent.

And I never, like, researched it and dug in more.

So it's the truth.

Yeah.

Okay.

I was surprisingly blown away, not by Lizzo's return album, but by the weird Mean Girl rap mixtape she released a few weeks later when the return album flopped.

It was an album in which she fully leaned into just being the villain.

You know, she had that whole scandal over being potentially abusive to folks who worked for her.

And she tried to fight it, but then it just kind of went away but kind of didn't.

But seeing her finally just say, I guess I am the villain felt very good.

I long for a time when we had celebrities who weren't afraid to be mean.

And we got a little bit of that from Lizzo this year.

And I liked it.

The album is called My Face Hurts From Smiling.

Yeah.

My second pick is this really weird band called Geese.

All I can say about Geese is that the lead singer sounds like he is in the middle of a bar fight every song.