The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
It is not a rom-com but a teen movie; Vienna was the most underrated great pop song from 1977 to 2004
In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:29:57Read transcript
- It is not a rom-com but a teen movie: they end up together only through time travel, Jenna is 13, there is no threat to overcome, and the moral is be a nice person.
- The response: it might not even be the hottest take, just right.
- From 1977 to 2004 Vienna was the most underrated great pop song, among the best ever with Wonderwall, Hey Jude and I Will Always Love You, and it took 28 years for a movie to unlock it.
- Billy Joel reportedly calls it one of his two best and credits the film's popularity with girls for its late success.
- Vienna and Summer, Highland Falls are called his underrated great songs; the other participant came to love it via the Spotify algorithm and calls it a B-side-like song that sets the scene apart.
- A participant's daughter sang Vienna at a fifth-grade talent show, a parenting highlight, though no other parent knew the song.