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The oxymoronic theme "Songs From the Imminent Past" was first suggested as a bit of a joke, but the more we thought about it, the more we succumbed to it, and well, here we are! For our podcast's first episode of 2022, we dove into a set of songs that has us thinking hard about the both the recent past and not-so-distant future.

To kick the year off, our panel for the episode was comprised of three podcast regulars: Carter Lee, Mahea Lee, and Martin Fowler. The conversation covered topics ranging from songwriting with someone else in mind to Guinness World Records, from musical symbiosis to the world of performance royalties — all while discussing recent tracks by Japanese Breakfast, Dijon, and Taylor Swift.

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