Santana vs The Supremes vs The Offspring
A Pytski mashup from 2013. It is striking how these artists from totally different eras, genres and backgrounds go so well together!
“Smooth,” “Stop! In The Name Of Love” and “Self Esteem” are all, at their core, about the same terrible situation: wanting someone who is bad for you and being unable to do anything about it. Santana seduces you into it. Diana Ross begs you to reconsider. Dexter Holland admits you never will.
The three songs form a complete story arc across three decades and three genres, which is not something most mashups can claim.
Ingredients
This mashup / mix is a blend of these tunes:
Santana ft. Rob Thomas
Smooth
Year: 1999
Album: Supernatural
Genre: Latin rock, alternative rock
About Smooth
Released in 1999 on Carlos Santana’s Supernatural, “Smooth” was written by Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty and Itaal Shur. Santana’s career had been in a quiet period before Supernatural brought him back with extraordinary force — the album won Album of the Year at the Grammys, and “Smooth” won Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Collaboration. It spent twelve weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The combination of Santana’s unmistakeable guitar tone and Rob Thomas’s vocal was a pairing nobody had anticipated and everyone immediately accepted. The groove is so self-assured it barely needs to try.
The Supremes
Stop! In The Name Of Love
Year: 1969
Single: Stop! In The Name Of Love / I’m In Love Again
Genre: Pop, R&B, soul
About Stop! In The Name Of Love
Released in February 1965, “Stop! In The Name Of Love” was written by the Holland-Dozier-Holland team — Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Eddie Holland — the songwriting engine behind Motown’s golden era. Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard delivered one of the most iconic performances in pop history: that stop-hand gesture, that pleading vocal, that irresistible chorus. It reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and has remained part of the cultural furniture ever since. The song is a direct appeal to reason — stop, think, don’t throw this away. Spoiler: nobody ever listens.
The Offspring
Self Esteem
Year: 1994
Album: Smash
Genre: Punk rock, pop-punk, alternative rock
About Self Esteem
The Offspring’s “Self Esteem” appeared on Smash in 1994 — the best-selling independent album of all time, with over eleven million copies sold. Written by Dexter Holland, the song is one of pop-punk’s most quietly devastating: a guy who keeps letting someone back in despite knowing better, singing about it with the cheerful energy of someone who has fully given up on his own dignity. The na-na-na outro is one of the genre’s great earworms. It is a song about self-destruction dressed up as a singalong, which is exactly what makes it work.
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