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hey everyone welcome to another episode of the 404 show on this Tuesday December 16th my name is Jeff Bakalar joined obviously by I as Akhtar and Arielle Nunez and a control room from last video appearance I thought it would be most fitting to have the lovely Shannon cook on the program how are you Shannon and for me to be very shiny how about that I'm glad you took advantage of your last video opportunity on the 404 I thought we're going out with some dazzling it's really like a shimmering effect you could sit me on top of a Christmas tree alright please don't do at the end of the show yeah really you say it seems uncomfortable it does sound a little uncomfortable that's quite all right so how have you been I've been great thank you yeah fantastic family doing well everything's doing great kids are great husbands great great everyone's great and how about you mr. family man you know I'm feeling it like you know I was talking before I don't think I'm really gonna start freaking out to like February right that's all let me hang out for like two more months there's no need to freak out it's all gonna be great yeah sure it's it's quite the miracle don't scare me because you freaked out no leave you can't change your nose you know it's one of those things that once you stop going down that road there is no turning back right especially at this point like where to where dupont committed here to turn back you were talking before like about lying like when the kids lie to you a lot when they're like 3-4 right they my sister lying just started lying or a half when can I start to talk to him like I talked to other people pretty much straight away very highly recommend you didn't do the baby talk thing that like seems like every mom does it go hi it's so cute it's like I didn't do that you know I didn't do that I just spoke like me and I think it served as well you think so yeah she's four and she's ready to enter college no I I mean I I each to their own when you have a little baby you can't help sometimes kind of time sure but but when they start conversing themselves and I I drop the baby talk straight away yeah you're like get it together Yeah right you know stop drooling and let's get down to business like what are that wha mean just tell me right tell me what that means your words you're six and a half months old all right fYI they don't speak at six months old oh that's right they talk when they're 15 babble a lot they but when do they start talking it's amazing how quickly is it what oh no they walk when they're one yes God there was they can put them down and take a break because once they start moving around on their own you're like where did it go right where did it go I'm just gonna attach a key where did he go where did she go yeah helium did you like this monster for a while it doesn't smile for a couple of months he just kind of looks at you and you're like I just you back you know what am i anticipating for the first like you know first day till like six months it's just like me being like yeah like this glob of bones and meat do you know you are gonna be so in love with that little blob yeah that little sack of uselessness yeah and you know in love with it alright I think the jury's still out on that one it's like it's I always thought a bit like oh it's very powerful I'm sure when it comes out and it's all disgusting and we're gonna be like this life meter that you get like a video game but like when this kid shows up it grows and you're like I didn't know I could care yeah about something until then myself yeah keep hearing that I'm a pretty selfish dude tiny bit nothing to feel worried for this no it's it's all gonna be lovely space that's justice most of that is joking I know most of it we hope 10% of it I did for you I think it's gonna be fantastic I really push to me a little little baby boy it'll definitely happen and thank you very much and your book really helped my wife I want to on the air so thank you um so thank you for doing you can read it too it might help you I might I got a couple like dude you're gonna be dead bro bye like books you know Jeff Spicoli but we'll see how that works before we wrap up the year that was 2014 in music I want to show everyone this ridiculous video that I just came across this morning it's called headus it's a German sport that combines ping pong with soccer oh my god so if you're not watching the video which you won't be forever starting tomorrow these guys are heading the ball like like a ping pong ball and they're using a small soccer ball on the thing can you maximize that is gonna give you a Z so yeah this is insane it's a German sport where men and women compete and they just use their heads to knock a small soccer ball across a ping pong case so it is a suckable it's not a lightweight and she's really really amazing these people are amazing and they like seem it's the same ferociousness as you get in a ping pong game like that same speed and they're jumping belly-first on to the table to like slam it which is crazy how many brain cells are they killing off do you think I don't know but like look at these guys are no you just like frog dives onto the anything whiplashed and necks gonna hear like yeah like I want to see like the first permanent paralysis like like whoo someone's done that before there's a lot of edges to a ping-pong table this is a game that you'd see between seals not not human yeah these guys are putting backspin and topspin on it anyway I can safely say I will never play that no ping pongs great never soccers great maybe they don't I will never play that ok ever ever ever never all right I agree and I want to hear if anyone to SHINee for that sport shiny made it currently in your current wardrobe now everything is shiny now second you give birth everything shiny happy person from here on out doesn't matter if you've only slept for two hours you're shiny now you're fun yeah first-first five six months cabbage all right who sleeps for the dead anyway all right exactly let's wrap up the year in music yeah Spotify had a very obviously massive year we did we can you two make ridiculous amounts of money with subscriptions and stuff like that right absolutely and we we strained 7 billion hours of music in 2014 which is a lot you say that number and you can it doesn't it doesn't even do it justice because you can't wrap your head around how I tried when I was in the shower I tried doing some mathematical equations and I was trying to break it down like how many songs is that I was just getting silly right it's it's a massive massive number a massive massive amount of streaming massive massive amount of listening and I think a list creation was also really impressive more than seven hundred and thirty million playlists were created by all that listeners I'm learning I'm learning that I think that for Spotify I think playlists were very big year because this was the first year where you know not that I noticed they were a thing I kind of realized that early on but the fact that people something changed maybe in the software where was that much more accessible and people sort of got it and I think that clicked in 2014 I think also what we saw this year was a sort of trend emerging where instead of gravitating towards say one playlist one day on a given day or listening to say one or two different albums on a day particular date we're finding that people are matching music to various moments right the day so they have a playlist for their morning commute they have a playlist for their workout sure before work they have a playlist for some focus time maybe some classical music when they're at work and it's my shower playlist and when it's like sing along - yeah really I like to sing in the shower so like I'm gonna make sure that the songs they know the lyrics to because I also use the app I think it's music match or something I could see the lyrics before and go you know the lyrics sing in the shower we allowed my neighbors don't so you rehearse the songs before you oh yeah my cubicle I'm not constantly singing I don't I don't sit near you but I could I've heard loud opera tales of your of your karaoke have troubles we do have a lot of singing what playlist on Spotify songs to sing in the shower and what we find is they're usually guilty guilty pleasure songs so what I want to know is when you and maybe you don't know the answer to this I wouldn't blame you if you did go on to like this the playlists or whatever it is there's like moods you know when you open up Spotify there's like a billion moods like you know chill mode and party mode who curates that we have a team of curators and Spotify who-who work day and night right on those playlist think I could get a gig doing that it sounds like a fun gig don't know like I was like the punk rock one I'll send some emails you scroll all the way down like Wade has everything there's like metal and punk rock and let me get that but we did we did find this year that the this I mean users love creating their own playlists for sure you know and that's the personal nature of music these days you want to feel like your own DJ but we did find that all the Spotify curated playlists we're really really popular like the most popular in each sort of broken down genre like work out playlists we have some work out playlists for cardio for running that are very specific and that that's streamed really really in high numbers right yeah it's pretty cool it would be a good job that way I think so right I feel like you wouldn't get away with just doing that though like you'd also have the link like they would just be like alright you do the pop and now you got the three hours of Nickelback duty oh that poor soul must get triple overtime pay do you know what I just learnt recently though somebody asked me how many playlists you can actually create like is there a limit and I wasn't sure so I checked with with some some people at work and and sure enough you can make as many playlist as you like there's absolutely no limit however there is a song limit per playlist oh really yeah do you know do you want to know what the song limit is I do now that you've teased it like that fifty thousand songs you cannot have more than fifty thousand so that's why is he so limited I'm so disappointed in my billion just for the year well summons some people make their playlists very very long I'm a fan of like 20 songs okay which is about an hour and a half an hour and a half of listening and that's that's a good amount of time for me but some people go for like five hours 12 hours sure and I just feel like you probably never get to the bottom half you're probably really because when you go back to real isint to a playlist you usually start from the beginning so probably playing the first 10 songs a lot not really getting to the bottom 400 are you guys like shuffle people like me no I'm not a shuffling that tells a lot about something oh really well what does that tell you about I know I don't know but my wife is the same way so in my car maybe that I'm a control freak I mean that's probably like 70% of it where is your more go with the flow maybe but you're a shuffle guy see in my car I have a little USB stick or or well as in a Spotify and I have a little USB with 32 gigs of music on it I pop it in and I just go random right like I want to hear that a couple thousand songs right and she like freaks out she's like what are you doing with that order there's chaos we need to listen to you know maybe it's a sex sex thing small sample size I wonder I wonder if there is something to that women prefer to not shuffle guys prefer to like a bit of spontaneity sure with their experience it's you know maybe it's just that I'm such a badass living on the edge that must be it could be absolutely right before we get into the most streamed artists of the year you have a list I did want to talk about a bit of controversy that hit Spotify this year in the vein of Taylor Swift right so number one who is she and number two he's a rather popular see I don't maybe I'm just I don't want to save the O word like I'm getting old but I just don't really understand who she is okay so a who is she she's a very very popular musician right he's had a really amazing year right she started out in Nashville mm-hmm writing she writes her songs she the girl that Kanye West like yes yeah was it to belittle that what was it MTV yeah that's right not cool Obama called him a jerk or something yeah it was yeah yeah because that been America's Sweetheart right for a while all right and she's like the the New York ambassador for for nothing right somewhere else with this and she's like famous for like breaking up with lots of guys nope well not where I was going to famous for that too learning maybe Oreo can shine some light on yeah yeah she's she's ambassador and coined the terms like bodega and she coined not coined it but you know she was defining it for yeah it's it's stupid she she started out in country she was cut she was kind of a country pop crossover and then the album she released this year called 1989 is that her birth year when she was born that um that was her first straight-up pop album okay she's kind of abandoned the whole country element and she's just going all out I wonder why she did that why'd she turn her back on country I don't know but as you know she also turned her back on Spotify which I assume is why we're not talking about Taylor Swift and yeah she did in fact um remove all her music from from Spotify which which was really disappointing and um we love her we love her music and a lot of our listeners loved her too so it was very disappointing for them they woke up one Monday morning and all their Taylor Swift songs were yet vanished from their playlists um so we hope that we're hopeful that one day she'll come back and she'll embrace streaming music it's interesting just how like and it's not just her there's other artists that have done this mm-hmm where I think it's just a lot of like uncharted territory and people don't exactly know what the right thing to do is even if whether or not there is a right thing to do well the I mean the music business is always evolving when you think about it it's been in a state of transition pretty much since it came to be and and we understand that when something's changing dramatically and and the music business has changed particularly dramatically over the last few years totally there are going to be people who are resistant we're the new new cool thing which at the moment we believe is streaming totally but you know for every artist who is perhaps a little resistant there are a hundred who have embraced it and we love it and we have a lot of artists who actually come into our New York headquarters and they perform for us they they're thrilled to be on Spotify and emerging artists are particularly into it because they see that it's a great way to break absolutely to get it out there yeah like last year Lord who sound like a broken record I mean I personally did not but all definitely helped I didn't know about her then you came on the show and well it was all really spotify listeners there were very early adopters of her song Royals and shared it a lot amongst their friends and so we started paying attention and bubbled up that way another example of an artist who had enjoyed that kind of a year was hodja hodja hodja or ho za he's he seems to have a few different ways of pronouncing his name depending on the country of the person you're talking to but he this time last year I was sitting here although the desk was on the other side of this whole room yes I said here and I was talking about this guy he's an Irish singer with a massive booming voice which kind of fills every corner of the room when he sings and I was talking about him as someone that we had our eyes on and we felt like he was going to be a big deal in 2014 and lo and behold our listeners started sharing his his lead single like gangbusters and this week it took nearly a whole year but this week he is the most streamed artist in the world on Spotify so you're welcome a lot to give thanks - okay let's get to specifics of the most streamed people this year the end a year sort of stuck let's get into it well first of all the most streamed track of the year this is where I get upset but you will get upset you're already upset I can tell I'm not gonna make you happy this song is happy just like Pharrell like I like him I don't like his hat but I like that oh yeah yeah it's ridiculous because every pop star they dress normally but like everything the rows got like great styling everything REO I mean I need like a second opinion on the Hat yeah I dig that you anything that's pushing my boundaries I'm weighted man what but it's a cowboy hat it's not really liking her the thing that the guide was yogi bear would win it's like if Lord showed up the next concert wearing an eyepatch right it seems glove it look like your shirt and it worked no but he was the King of Pop okay you don't mess with Michael Jackson okay so real is pretty important for sure he's behind pretty much every major pop zone but this song okay I think this song's popularity didn't have anything to do with the Hat no no I'm just if you if you'll cast your minds back to the very beginning of the year which is so hard to do isn't it as we're especially happy was inescapable for the first three to four months of the year it was just absolutely surreal and it spawned all those music videos copycat video put that song up with the frozen song though where it's just like oh my god stick needles in my ears I cannot listen to this goddamn song anymore well you're lucky you're having a boy it just because you would that song would be very much in your but that song just felt very like it's it's a catchy song but it's not for us it's it felt like it was a kids song I would pull up to a traffic light and like look across and there's like some tough dude like some rough dude and he's listening happy Despicable Me 2 that's where I heard the first time that's pretty catchy song and then it blew up and I was like oh oh yeah you you knew it back well yeah I did way back because my sounds like let's watch this with the minions and oh cool and the song got bigger it's a song that resonated with so many people from kids from toddlers like your your your kid my kid parents loved it older people loved it it everybody liked I know it was the greatest thing it was so uplifting and positive Wonder Bread of pop music we're gonna move on now real quick well you know what upset me about that song but not up how popular it got not how catchy or like your were me that song it was that you weren't invited to dance on the video no not at all because I would have gladly declined but listen my whole thing was like even after all that popularity it like and after you thought it was over you're like okay finally we can get back to business it shows up in like 35 commercials in a row you get away with that quick I'm sorry anyway what's next Katy Perry was the world's most dreamed female different and she um she is catchy she unseated Rihanna she's out all right she doesn't write her own stuff does she writing going on just saying but I think what's been key to her success on Spotify particularly is um she had two big songs yeah one of them was Dark Horse and Dark Horse was massive on Spotify and I think because it has a dance beat anything you can dance to right tends to do well these days doesn't matter if you're a rap artist doesn't matter if you're a rock artist or a pop artist throw in a bit of an electronic dance music beat with the chorus and every dorm in America will be playing your song shimmying inertia look you've almost completely missed out my little shimmy all right let's move on there cuz I know you're not a huge Katy Perry fan Coldplay go on haha Coldplay was our most streamed band or a group of 2014 they had a they released their sixth album a sky full of stars was their big song and again that song had a really strong dance beat through the chorus which it's a great song as it go dananana dananana is that the one I'm not gonna sing it is that the one that sounds like the u2 song well that's what he sounds like he's always like haha okay yeah good that was that was impressive clocks is the only song I think they made that was okay box is pretty already bangin I liked yellow yellow had that one go that one was like what they wrong yellow Chris man Chris man has been quoted as suggesting that Coldplay are going to retire that there they're making their current there currently no play they're currently working on their next album and there were they've been a couple of reports that it may be their last I don't believe it awesome well we'll just have to and I'll just have to wait if they have many sleepless nights Eminem the most streamed artist in the u.s. really yeah of anybody yep Eminem Eminem in the u.s. I find that surprising I think do you yeah I find it surprising for one reason you know a core demographic I guess you could say on Spotify is very young right you're talking about sort of 25 under 25 yeah and here's a dude who's been making music for almost 20 years now he's in his forties I think he's about 41 I tell and he is even though a lot of these our listeners and Spotify didn't grow up with him you can tell well no you know him a little bit he's no worse for the wear like Marshall Mathers LP is a great record man that's that's like it brings me back to high school can't believe us 20 years now it's almost when doing this right yeah for sure some amazing record yeah yeah yeah what was he had that one song about mushrooms yeah a bunch of songs I was just really good stuff well what's interesting what's interesting too about the fact that he's a most streamed artist this year is he didn't actually have an album come out this year oh wow that's why his album came out at the end of last year but he had some big songs he had monster which features Rihanna mm-hm everyone loves Rihanna yeah this huge back catalogue to go back a little bit yeah well I mean lyrically it he's like an acrobat totally he's a lyrical acrobat you listen to to what he does and it blows your mind right you can forget about it you sort of forget about him if he hasn't been in the news or he hasn't released it's been a while since he's released something but then you go back and you listen and you're like how the hell does he do that it's amazing it's really impressive does it make sense how fast these beings know yeah it's pretty okay do you want to know the most popular most streamed song in the US it's not an Eminem song I thought it was happy no that was in the world Oh planet Earth Katy Perry song no it's no one we've mentioned yet it's a fancy song Iggy Azalea yeah sweet hint Shannon because I'm like what is it because I don't remember what should i my hint have been I don't know I really don't know she comes from a place where we all talk like this yeah that would've been I would have been better you could is that how you really talk because I think that's awesome I know we're always fixated on your accent it comes back it comes back if I'm surrounded by Aussies I bet if you have a couple drinks it comes out more no no really no all right well that's for next show when on video having fun when did that that song came out at the end of the spring and it blew up over the summer it was it was one of the songs of the summer we really didn't have a standout song of the summer this year look people are waving to us we didn't have a song of the summer was we dead this that every every impersonation he does sound like Kermit the Frog yeah yes Calvin Harris had the most streamed song of the summer which was the song called summer however when you really look at what song you heard songs you heard when you went shopping at all just mushes into the same kind of guard to me there wasn't really a standout yeah but Iggy azalea's song was definitely I like ho definitely up there might be I don't love the song but I like how it starts it starts as if there's like something funny just happen you know like like oh you dropped the glasses like boom boom boom and you're it's almost like interlude to Seinfeld you know you're just like up here we go people love it and I think I think one of the things that really drove this song though was the hook which yeah interestingly enough isn't actually sung by Iggy it's sung by the UK performer Charli XCX she sings it and she sounds a little bit like she does she's pretty rough she's cool well so here's some boom clap she was on Saturday Night Live yeah and I present to watch that wasn't why I liked her mm-hmm I didn't mute it I I thought it was a band and I was diggin the band right and the all-female band I was really digging but you're saying she's a solo yeah she's also written it's kind of like she's got like a little like poppy kind of Punk thing going on yeah no she's she's tough which is why she's like 22 right he's very young which is why she she she sang in a much the same way as she sort of guessed it on Iggy song fancy she's saying on Icona pop song I don't care I don't wait you don't boom clap I really like and for some reason and this is really dorky and embarrassing for a while I kept saying boom clap at the end of everything Oh like I hold it like Danny would say Daniel would say Oh sky just said her first word and I'd go boom clap right so ridiculous it certainly sounds like it what I'm joking very nice today cranky no no I'm totally getting excited can't you feel I'm acting excited about the happy song okay so okay this is really really a reach V alright let's talk about kind of blown away that the Charlie sang the fancy chorus hook right no it was he does all the rapping I'm yet to hear it really sing actually um but let's talk about the most streamed artist in the world on 2014 because we haven't even gotten to him yet ed Sheeran no idea oh that's the the the redhead kid yeah with the tattoos yes a guy from the Victoria Secrets thing he's very do feel like he's would remember Dashboard Confessional yes like Chris Carrabba I feel like he's what Chris Carrabba wanted to ultimately be well he's pretty much nailing it he's essentially like a redhead emo kind of dude acoustic right most of his stuff so he's he's a really impressive performer in if you ask me in that he is a soloist in the true sense of soloist he he gets up on a stage and he can fill an arena yeah and he loses stuff right yeah and it's just him and his guitar there's no backup band there's no one else and if you really think about it that's hard that's total to command that audience and to have every single eyeball looking straight at you right you know even there's what you can't go over to the drummer and be like Annie yeah it's all him in 40,000 people for a whole show what's the man and he and he his performances are just he just gives it he's absolute all and every song is is beautiful and rich and I I don't know why I'm impressed I'm really thrilled that he had a good year I wouldn't necessarily see his stuff out it's not my cup of tea really but I totally respect what he's doing more so for the fact that he does this amazing like looping yeah yeah where he'll play basically stand how musicians do that it yeah I mean like Reggie Watts does it a lot too we're like you just take you know you basically record stuff and then play it back ah really knows most about that stuff then we do but it's amazing have you ever seen this Ed Sheeran guy do that's not haven't yeah it's pretty impressive and we actually predicted that this up he released an album earlier this year I think it was in August actually and it was called multiply hmm and we predicted this would be the album that brought him a wider audience and and it really did it resonated on both sides of the Atlantic and he had a hit song a sort of an unexpected surprise hit song I guess he could say a couple of years ago called the a-team was an acoustic sounding song and it did surprisingly well in the charts and I think he thought well I know he thought because he has said that he thought right that okay we'll leave if I could do that well in the US with sort of that song let's really blow the doors off this thing and see what we can do and he actually for the lead single on this new album he brought in Pharrell who was wearing the Hat sorry to say he's always wearing that hat and he he had a song that's a little bit more playful than than we were used to with with him he's kind of always been a bit sensitive yeah wears his heart on his sleeve the ladies really like him even result he's just like an emo evolution night when you say emo though I think of sort of thrashing me well bit more thrashing I wouldn't it's different like when I grew up emo was like it was definitely hard rock but it was like basically dudes crying about their girl and that's definitely engineering yeah I mean that's really like the cure would have been labeled email yeah you know or the Smiths Morrissey oh that all would have been email if there was such a thing well I urge you to check him out and last week was interesting you mentioned that was it last week that the Victoria's Secret fashion thing was at the week before the police ago in London you know you've really made it when you're invited to perform oh yeah and edge ed Sheeran was there performing doing his thing with his guitar and so was hozier the Irish singer who I told you about a year ago but you didn't believe me would um would make it you accompany me under the bus we're like whatever Shannon nothing right but you were right and we were wrong once again so weird where's is he British sure and Ed Sheeran's from the UK yep he's 23 god they're so young yeah and a lot of actually this year we saw a lot of success from UK artists right a lot of them crossing the pond and doing really really well here and there's one artist who I want to mention who we think is this time next year everyone's gonna know who he is I mean you have the data you're probably right he's well there's not a whole lot of data to go on by now okay at this point but if I can can predict we can predict the future baseball runs who is it who's gonna be this time it is a gentleman named James Bay James bed James Bay he's from the UK and you will love him do you know why because he doesn't he has a great song he does have a hat and that picture he does you see he has a great song and guess what this song is called uh just the man let it go no come up with better it's possibly an unfortunate name no one knows about it not too late but it's a beautiful song he's kind of uh has a really soulful voice I did that and he won the British I always get the name of this award on the British Critic Choice Awards he was given that prize and that is a very coveted prize and oddest who got that Olli in their careers went on to have phenomenal success like Adele and this time last year Sam Smith was the recipient of that work that award that's all where is it Dell Adele when she go to see me you know I haven't seen her we haven't chatted lately sheen around the office there are rumors that she's actually working on an album and it was some believe that it was going to come out by the end of this year but it looks like it might be next year okay we'll see cool great great singer you like Adele I think I do I think he does ask yourself this I love that voice her songs are so cosmically sad but but amazing at the same time what's the one what's the one that whenever I play at my husband's like Ted Turner it's just it's I mean when you really listen to the lyrics you it's hard to fill out you you have to play Pharrell's happy immediately after if you want too much of a it's too silly absolutely is there like a playlist for you getting out your ear worms like that there must be one right yeah there's a playlist for everything you can search to WA there are playlists that people to play through chihuahuas have you heard about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Green Day yeah Green Day you read yeah great great that Lou Reed's going in a min it's a shame he's not it's not around and I didn't realize Green Day was like eligible I thought you had a like what are the requirements though you have to have been making music for what's the number of years is it ten it's got to be at least I mean I know Green Day I think the record was nine B okay so it could eighty nine maybe maybe it's twenty years yeah that's crazy maybes 25 25 years after the release of their first fret right they are eligible they all now are early 40s okay well you know good for them I mean you spell the end of knowing - not I just I guess I'm kind of proud of them in a weird way as you did you know given the first big break and no because I just yeah you know Green Day like we've had a lot of discussions I miss them when Justin used to be on the show he talked a lot of about Green Day why just you know I don't know you just didn't like them for whatever reason and I was just like I don't know they kind of changed a lot of things for me when I was a kid and just to see them like grow up and be this popular and in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame which I can tell is like that if it's a big achievement or not it wasn't the Beastie Boys didn't the Beastie Boys get inducted was it last year I think so yeah yeah I mean did you feel the same way totally yeah for sure it's it's weird red hot chili peppers that all think - all right do you have any more artists for us or is that it well it's up to you do you have any more time I think you're promoting one more all right let me talk about one more that's rounded all up there's a guy I really like called bones but he's got that funny oh with the line through it I don't know what you call that Osmo Oswalt oh no that's loud thank you özil motley is what I'm thinking of remember özil motley announce that I've always seen that one a lot no no no the two dots right but yeah the stripe and Dawson why would she cool that I'm gonna call it like it was like a zero yeah it does but you guys got a line through zero D what is that what what language it's tricky marketing that's what it is he's this young guy from Michigan originally he's now based in LA he has a bit of a synth pop vibe really really cool songs which are he released an EP about a month ago called candy and a few of those songs are already popping with our listeners and that they've been shared a lot and right as we've talked about pop we views return we views sharing as a Shannon family a shimmer Shan as we've talked about surely Cher's isn't is an indicator to us as a potential so we've got our eyes on Garrett borns and but James Bay James Bay that you came from yep so this is bright it down this time next year James Bay borns Lord again no shoes Lord did have a massive year she did but she's got to follow it up now now she's got a this is the hardest time in her career to do it I think she's gonna do it she's autistic enough and she's sophisticated it's not gonna I don't recall that I don't know yeah I mean like Adele kind of like you know follow that up man make it happen she did I thought didn't bill had a different Adele second record that like match was great yeah yes alright maybe inspire what give it a listen who else had a tough time following up with a sophomore record nice people yeah it's toss people very tough very tough but I have a feeling Lord might actually she might pull through so James Bay borns at Rory I wonder we've Arielle thiz has heard of Rory he's an eighteen-year-old rap artist from Atlanta and he's interesting because he sings and raps and he sings as well as arrests he has a really nice singing voice I never heard he's already streaming and really really high numbers consistently high every week so just a few you can eye on those okay and maybe I'll come back not in Shimer form because this is what this is the last video show this is the tomorrow is here tomorrow is okay so thank you for being here for this that on our video finale week it's always a pleasure we've loved having you all these years come on the show it's been awesome nobody named I had to write down here so I wouldn't mispronounce all right Shannon on the back of my hand but you can see with one inch did you write she Martian I was just gonna say shimmers all right so Shannon so Jim Channon Shan you'll be betting they're not too because everyone's that it was like it sound like I'm tiny or something oh that video is dying but know you'll be back when we when we start in 2015 short term in it maybe we'll keep you on the same sort of schedule great and this is scheduled as a light schedule there was a casual schedule schedule and thanks again for everything my things you have a hot happy holiday in a merry new year likewise and I look forward to getting to know your well meeting your baby I'm not babysitting something I'd like to name him or at least throw your you know hat into the ring for that sort of thing let me know what you got Barnes back alone oh I can't deny that no that's completely up Lord back a now that is a very personal choice is it yeah what are your kids names Kylie Kylie and Scott this guy what's your son's name Aldrin it's cool it's very cool right yeah I'm not gonna buzz no buzz back oh my god someone knows we should name our kid Carlin for George Carlin I'm like I don't know that's gonna go over well people call me carly keep Carl you've got some time no but you might not it might not really come to you until you actually made the baby oh yeah he'll be born to be like that looks like a Derek follow Shannon on Twitter at Shannon cook with one n kinds we will see you very soon see you soon Happy New Year guys see you alright that'll do it for us tomorrow Steve gottenberg on the show to finish the last official 404 video show and and then next week we'll be airing our video game wraps up with wrap up with the Giant Bomb guys and as well as when we're going to record today with the TV Guide editors wrapping up the year in television so stay tuned for that 866 404 scene it is the phone number follow us on Facebook Twitter reddit Instagram and ello and we're back here tomorrow with a brand new show until then I'm Jeff Bakalar am i his act robe with no hands I'm Mario Nunez thanks again to shimmer Shan has been the 404 show high tech lowbrow see you tomorrow