The Celebrity Crossover Challenge

The Celebrity Crossover Challenge

Author: Shitty Mashups January 21, 2022 Duration: 37:47

Since the dawn of time humankind has operated on the assumption that if you're good at one thing, you must be good at all things. It's the reason nerds online listen to some of the absolute worst takes of all time, the reason lawyers and doctors think they're good at computers (none of them are) and the reason actors start musical careers. Are some of them good? Yeah sure, but their latent fame from their previous career will often propel mediocre shit into the spotlight simply because of a name. The cycle repeats over and over, rewarding mediocrity and crushing originality under its boots. America is a failed experiment and its dream no longer recognizable to its people.


Deep beneath our feet, in a geothermal lab where the rock is hot and the standards are low, three eternally confined scientists conduct their audacious auditory experiments. This is Shitty Mashups. Each episode is a gleeful report from their subterranean studio, where the mission is simple: to fuse songs that were never meant to meet, crafting what might generously be called the worst music ever conceived. The results are unpredictable, often hilarious, and strangely compelling. You'll hear legendary pop anthems violently welded to forgotten elevator jingles, aggressive metal riffs underpinning smooth jazz solos, and nursery rhymes subjected to unthinkable electronic beats. The hosts, operating as the podcast's cursed creators, provide a running commentary of scientific despair and manic pride as their creations unfold. It's a celebration of glorious failure and a bizarre love letter to music itself, asking the important question: how wrong can a song feel before it becomes a new kind of right? Tune in for a uniquely chaotic and comedic listen that defies all conventional taste.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 98

Shitty Mashups
Podcast Episodes
Normie Music [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:01
Look there's nothing wrong with popular music. There's nothing wrong with things that have a wide appeal. It just so happens that the more you obsess about an art form, the further down the rabbit hole you go. This means…
36. The Inside Out Challenge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:49
Have we already been doing this for 7 thousand months? Seems like just yesterday our clones were activated to start this research. Though I guess from our point of view maybe it was yesterday? Who can keep track really.…
35. Your Least Favorite Genre of Music [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:51
We've been making music too good for too long. If we're going to accomplish our goal of destroying music forever we need to start exploring the dark corners that we try to ignore. Ian has to make an electro-swing song an…
34. The Covers Challenge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:33
Let's face it. All ideas have existed before. All knowledge exists in the void and every once in a while a person will rediscover it. I think Plato said that or some shit. I'm not sure how true it is because I'm pretty s…
32. Rainy Day Music [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:38
Well it's the middle of summer for the north side of the earth. A lot of people think north is the top hemisphere but what people don't know is the earth is actually rotating on its X-axis, not its Z-axis. Meaning the ac…
31. The Playlist Shuffle [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:48
Do you listen to albums all the way through as the artist intended? Or are you a shufflegoblin? Let's make a quick alignment chart.Listening to full albums: Lawful GoodListening to all music on shuffle: Chaotic NeutralLi…
30. The Song For A Movie Challenge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:17
Another movie-based challenge? Yeah. We love movies. Everyone on the planet loves movies. This time we have to use a song that was made specifically for a movie. Like Prince's Bat Dance, or whatever Aerosmith made for Ar…
29. The Overplayed Challenge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:52
Hey there. Have you ever had a job? Have you ever worked a job where you listen to the same playlist of songs every day with absolutely no control over when it starts, ends, or how loud it is? Does your place of work use…
28. Your Girlfriend's Favorite Track Right Now [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:11
Love is in the air. This week the boys have to make mashups using their girlfriend's favorite songs (at the moment). Did they make something that the ladies liked? Or did they commit sonic crimes? Tune into your favorite…