KJLS-FM 103.3 10am Sundays
November 8,2026
Someone or Some Things to Turn To in Life
Part 1
Hello Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this second Sunday of the beautiful Fall month of November, 2026. Welcome to MATT. Get set for the top 10 songs of our area right now as determined by the research from your requests, as well as the research of Mediabase 24-7 for the reporting date of today, and get ready for some top 10 songs of the past as well. I am Fr. Mike, and you have your dial set to Mix 103.3, the number one popular music station in Central Kansas. Get ready now for a show dedicated to the thought of understanding the popular music of our day and helping our lives by means of it. Today we will talk a little about finding things or people to turn to in times of struggle.
And the reason for that is our lead song today which is the topic of my website frmikescully.com this Friday. The song leads us to ask: what should we turn to in life when things are not what they should be? That’s a question that can lead to a lot of thinking. The thought comes up in the song from the Chainsmokers, that is Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall, which they sing with the group Coldplay. The lady in the relationship says, “Where d’you wanna go? How much you wanna risk?” And the man in the relationship sings: “I’m not looking for somebody with superhuman gifts, some superhero, some fairy tale bliss, just something I can turn to, somebody I can miss. I want something just like this.” What he is searching for is a friend that he can trust, someone that he has a relationship with at the present time, but he doesn’t seem sure that the relationship will last.
So, it brings up the question of who we turn to in life, the rock solid person that we can trust. Sometimes it is a friend such as in the song, but as they sing, it has to be someone that is real—not just a fairy tale or something that is false or fake. In the world of human relationships, it is often another person. In the spiritual world that I deal with a lot, it is the whole thought of God and the presence of God in our lives.
The important thing, perhaps, is that we have that someone that is rock solid, that is someone we can turn to, someone that we can miss. We need the help of others or Other—capital O—to make it in the world that we live in. We are not meant to be alone, although sometimes we have to be alone with ourselves to do some serious thinking.
But the point is a personal one: who should we turn to to help us as we go through our lives. The songs that we play here on MATT will have answers to that question, because every song has a message—something we say and believe on the show, and therefore there will be some things that we should turn to or someone in the songs that we can turn to to help us with our lives.
Let’s begin our show with the song that brings up the question. This is the duo known as The Chainsmokers and singing with them is the British group Coldplay, from 2017 from their album “Memories...Do Not Open” and their song “Something Just Like This” on MATT.
(double) SOMETHING JUST LIKE THIS / The Chainsmokers f/ Coldplay
CLOSER / The Chainsmokers f/ Halsey
Part 2
Double The Chainsmokers there. That last one was a song that they sang with Ashley Nicolette Frangipane better known as Halsey, and their song “Closer” from 2016, also from their album “Memories...Do Not Open.” “We ain’t ever getting older,” they sing. They use those words to point out that they should love each other right away. Now, I don’t totally agree with that; in fact, I feel that romantic love is something that should take some time in developing. But it brings up the topic of what should we learn as we get older. Working with the theme that they gave us, namely “Who is someone we should turn to?” Well, someone who is really important for us, and someone we can always turn to.
Let’s begin our countdown this morning and go to number 10 and a song of revenge as the lady in a once upon a time relationship talks directly to the new girlfriend of that lover. She sings: “I’ve gotta be honest, I’ve been expecting your call.” She had heard that they were having difficulties in dating, and she tells her that she knows something about that: “If you wanna party with somebody who might know about the devil on his shoulder under his halo, when the toxins take their hold, you’d rather die than let it go. But if you’re sick of him, I got you, I was patient zero.” Patient zero is a person identified as the first to become infected with an illness or disease in an outbreak. Therefore in the song, the person who is singing was his first victim. She has gone through the breakup, and is advising his new girlfriend to do the same thing. In terms of our theme this week, revenge should have no part in a person’s life if indeed that person wants to find someone they can turn to. This is from her album “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore,” Taylor Swift and her song “Patient Zero” number 10 this morning on MATT.
(triple) 10 PATIENT ZERO / Taylor Swift
9 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
8 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
Part 3
One of the songs of the Video Music Awards ceremonies this year that was nominated for song of the year from British singer/songwriter Olivia Lauryn Dean or simply Olivia Dean for the first time today on our show. It is from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her excellent song “Man I Need”. The song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any love relationship or any relationship really, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, baby, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication. In terms of our theme today, namely someone to turn to, no matter who, there must be sincere communication.
Before her, we heard from Ms. Ariana Grande and her song at number 9 in our countdown from her album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me” on MATT. She sings: “Just know that I will find my way from you, like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” And she breaks up with him, and as one would guess, it was bitter—and the video shows it very well. It was a video that was nominated for best video of the year at this year’s VMA ceremonies. In terms of our theme this week, sometimes we have to break up with someone before we finally find someone that we can honestly turn to.
Our theme this week is what the songs of our show suggest about whom we should turn to in times of struggle. It came from The Chainsmokers’s and Coldplay’s song “Something Just Like This”. Get ready for / in order of appearance: Rihanna, Colbie Caillat, Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift and Teddy Swims. As we go to break, here is a thought for you. It comes from a modern saint, Mother Teresa: “We can do no great things: only small things with great love.” Beautiful thought. I’m Fr. Mike inviting you to stay with us. Your dial is set for Mix 103.3 and you are listening to “Message at the Top”.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
You are in tune, my friends, with MATT, your top 10 show on Mix 103.3. Thank you for joining us this morning. We welcome you back to the songs that have been the most popular in this area during this past week that ends today. We take the top 10 of the present and past and study their messages, and then call our show MATT. I’m your host Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We began our show with a theme and title setting song from The Chainsmokers and Coldplay and their song “Something Just Like This” and we are thinking about who we should turn to in times of struggle.
Yet another double play is all set on our computers right now. It will begin with Rihanna and close with the beginning of a 4-pack of the remaining songs on my website this week. First, to Rihanna. It is a song of devotion to another, but it seems that the other does not want the lady in the relationship. “Baby, you got me like ah, woo. Don’t you stop loving me. I’m fist fighting with fire just to get close to you. I’m no good without you and I can’t get enough, must be love on the brain.” As I say, the lady in the relationship is quite taken with the other, seemingly not being able to function without him. Thinking in terms of our theme, one of the things that we should turn to in life is the ability to function on our own and not be dependent on others to determine our feelings. This is from 2017, Robyn Rihanna Fenty or simply Rihanna from her album “Anti” and her song “Love on the Brain” on MATT.
(double) LOVE ON THE BRAIN / Rihanna
BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN/ Colbie Caillat
Part 5
On my website frmikescully.com tomorrow, former number 1 for a long time from Ms. Colbie Caillat, from 2011, from her album “All of You” and her song “Brighter Than the Sun” on MATT. I call it a happy song of love, a song of how love has affected the woman in the relationship. “I swear you hit me like a vision,” she sings the thoughts of the lady, “I wasn’t expecting, but who am I to tell fate where it’s supposed to go with it. Oh, this is how it starts, lightning strikes the heart. It goes off like a gun, brighter than the sun. Oh, we could be the stars, falling from the sky, shining how we want, brighter than the sun.” As one studies the song, there are good feelings of love there. On my website, I say the theme of the song is: True love will make us happy, enabling us to be people who care about others, and that is a pretty good way to carry out our theme today, namely something to turn to in our lives.
Let’s stay with the songs on my website this week and give you a triple play of them. It begins with the very popular Sabrina Carpenter. The song was the winner of the best pop solo performance from the Grammys a couple years ago. She said of this song: “The song is kind of about seeing femininity as your superpower, and embracing the confidence of being that lady.” I changed a word in that statement, and her song goes: “Now, he’s thinking ‘bout me every night, is it that sweet? I guess so. Say you can’t sleep; I know that’s me, espresso. I can’t relate to desperation. My ‘give a cares’ are on vacation, and I got this one boy and he won’t stop calling. When they act this way, I know I got ‘em. Too bad your ex don’t do it for ya. Walked in and dream came trued it for ya. Soft skin and I perfumed it for ya. I know I Mountain Dewd it for ya. That morning coffee brewed it for ya. One touch and I brand newd it for ya. That’s me, espresso.” I changed some of the words. I’ve said before that it is an interesting use of the English language—making verbs out of nouns. I think the song means that the lady in the relationship is the “Espresso” and she is totally in charge, and has an immense amount of self-confidence. Of course, there can be too much of it, and too much is just plain selfishness. In terms of our theme this morning, self-confidence is something that we should turn to in our lives, but not too much. This is her extremely popular song that I rank at number 4 both years of 2024 and 2025 from her album “Short n’ Sweet,” and her song “Espresso” on my website this Wednesday on MATT.
(triple ) ESPRESSO / Sabrina Carpenter
FORTNIGHT / Taylor Swift f/ Post Malone
LOSE CONTROL / Teddy Swims
Part 6
On my website this Saturday, from his album “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy, part 1”, Teddy Swims and his song “Lose Control” from 2023 on MATT. The song is an attempt on the part of the man in the relationship to control the situation. Some words of the song are these: “Something’s got a hold of me lately,” he sings, “No, I don’t know myself anymore, feels like the walls are all closing in and the devil’s knocking at my door. Outta my mind, how many times did I tell you I’m no good at being alone? It’s taking a toll on me, trying my best to keep from tearing the skin off my bones. Don’t you know I lose control when you’re not next to me. I’m falling apart right in front of you. You’re breaking my heart. You make a mess of me.” So, it is loneliness because one special person is no longer there for him. One of the problems of early relationships is that we get too serious too soon and when the situation breaks up for whatever reason, it causes loneliness for the person, and blocks the possibility of relationship with another. In terms of our theme this week, when we are lonely, we have to determine someone that we can turn to to help us out of the loneliness.
Before him, we heard the song on my website this Thursday, a song that was nominated for both Record and Song of the Year at the Grammys that year, that year being 2024. It is a presentation of something that could happen in real life. The name of the song is “Fortnight” as sung by Taylor Swift and Post Malone from Taylor Swift’s album “The Tortured Poets Department.” The lady in the relationship becomes a neighbor of an ex-lover who is married to another woman. And she herself is unhappily married. Interesting scenario. “And for a fortnight there, we were forever,” they sing, “Run into you sometimes, ask about the weather. Now you’re in my backyard, turned into good neighbors. Your wife waters flowers. I wanna kill her. All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February, I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary. And I love you, it’s ruining my life. I touched you for only a fortnight, but I touched you.” As I say, a glimpse of a real-life situation, and it is pretty negative. They had the breakup and for the lady anyway, it is still a problem, and she will have to determine someone to turn to for some help, our theme today.
Difficult stuff being talked about there and popular music brings them up in their songs. These songs make us really think about life and love. Our topic this morning is the fact that often we must find someone to turn to. That thought was spoken by The Chainsmokers together with Coldplay at the beginning of our show. We will continue to search with that thought in mind on MATT in just a few moments with artists like Olivia Rodrigo and Shawn Mendes. Let me take you to break with this thought. It is from American Author James Branch Ca-bell who died in 1958: "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." Think about that. Stay with us; we’ll be right back. You’ve got MATT on Mix 103.3.
This is MATT on Mix 103, and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our research and your requests. We call our show MATT because we take those top 10 songs and analyze their meanings and messages in the light of how we can live better in this complicated and complex world of ours. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of today’s best music Mix 103.3, and we are pursuing a theme from The Chainsmokers and Coldplay and their song “Something Just Like This”. The theme that comes from it is the thought that we can find someone to turn to in our lives.
Let’s go back to our countdown and turn our attention to number 7 in our top 10 right now. It is a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. “I can’t move on, babydoll,” he sings, “waitin’ on calls, flippin’ through stations. I’m outclassed and it’s outrageous, and I’ll take it all, babydoll, whatever’s been weighin’ you down. Find me on Miami concrete, lookin’ for somebody different ‘cause my daddy was a pimp; my mama had her issues, but I miss her anyway. Oh, babydoll, please don’t call me for the wrong reasons.” The man in the relationship is looking for love, and he may not have ever learned exactly what it is. In terms of our theme, before he can find someone to turn to, he must reconcile himself with his difficult childhood. And, as I said before, that may be one of the major causes of messed up marriages in our world. The song comes from 30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll”, number 7 on MATT.
(triple) 7 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike
6 DRACULA / Tame Impala
5 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
Part 8
Finally falling from the number 1 position that she held for 17 weeks—almost a record—British singer Olivia Dean again, from her album “The Art of Loving,” the second time we have heard from her in the top 10 and the second song from that album, this time her song “So Easy” on MATT. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone saying that their love would be permanent, and she is the someone that he can turn to—in her mind anyway, our theme today.
Before her, we heard our number 6 song this week from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula”. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre. The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and part of that understanding means that he has to move out of his desire to be alone and will involve knowing that if he doesn’t do that, he will never be able to form a true relationship and therefore never find someone he can turn to, our theme today.
Right now, let’s wish a happy birthday. And we will honor the artist Solana Imani Rowe, or better known as SZA or Sizza who is 37 years old today. It is a song of pain, and revolves around the fact that the lady in the song’s boyfriend broke up with her. She doesn’t mean literally what she sings and she tells us that at the very beginning: “I’m still a fan,” she says and she says that she was just so upset to see him with another person. Then she sings what she feels like, saying in sarcasm that she is so mature because she has a therapist. She sings: “I might kill my ex, not the best idea; his new girlfriend’s next. I still love him, rather be in jail alone.” And she knows what she is doing—“I did it all for love, I did it all on no drugs, I did all of this sober; don’t you know I did it all for us.” And in the last verse she actually does it, closing with her words, “Rather be in hell than alone.” As I say a song of pain, and the feeling of being alone. In terms of our theme, she has let the negative control her life, and she must try to find someone to turn to in order to lead her out of the pain. The song comes out of the movies of the same name; this is SZA from her album “SOS”—happy birthday to her—and her song “Kill Bill” from 2023 on MATT.
(triple) KILL BILL / SZA
DON’T LET ME DOWN / The Chainsmokers f/ Daya
WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE / Adele
Part 9
From 2017 again and her Grammy-winning album of the year “25,” Adele Laurie Blue Adkins or Adele and her song “Water Under the Bridge” on MATT. The lady in this relationship definitely wants the man in the relationship to be the one for her, as Adele sings, but she seems realistic at the same time. She sings “If you’re gonna let me down, then let me down gently.” And she has good reason to believe that he is going to let her down because he doesn’t seem to be responding to her: “It’s so cold out here in your wilderness. I want you to be my keeper, but not if you are so reckless.” She doesn’t want to say that their love is just water under the bridge, and she begs him, “Say it ain’t so.” Thinking in terms of our theme, one of the things we should turn to in our lives is the ability to stand on our own two feet and not have to beg others to be liked.
Before them, the only other song on our playlist from The Chainsmokers, the Best Dance Recording according to the Grammys a couple years ago from them along with Grace Martine Tandon better known as Daya, from The Chainsmokers’s album “Bouquet” and their song “Don’t Let Me Down”. One of the facts of life is that pain will always result when we love someone who does not love us in return. It is clearly the experience of modern day romantic love, when young people in particular are hoping for happiness with a partner who does not seem to respond. It is the case of the young lady in the song. She desperately wants the love of a boyfriend who apparently is not returning her love. The person has crashed and needs a miracle in a hurry. She calls his name, but he’s not around, and so she sings “I need you right now, don’t let me down. I really thought you were on my side, but now there’s nobody by my side.” The person is hurting badly, and there doesn’t seem to be anyone to help her, or maybe she wants someone special to help her, and he won’t. As we think of the things that we should turn to in life, one of them is being open to friends, even if we are no longer friends.
It’s always interesting what these songs of popular music bring into our thought. We’re talking about who or what we should turn to in life as a theme today. We are asking our music to explore that theme which we will continue to do with our final segment in just one minute. Before that happens, we will have a break, and before that break, let me say this along with the sarcasm of Albert Einstein: “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” Now, being a former teacher, I do not totally agree with that, but you get the point. I’m Fr. Mike, this radio station is Mix 103.3, this show is MATT, and we’ll be right back.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Hi again, everyone! This is “Message at the Top”, on Mix 103.3. Thank you for joining us this morning. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area, as well as some top 10’s of the past. And what is amazing about all of our songs is that with a little bit of help, they can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today concerns the thought that came from The Chainsmokers together with Coldplay and a theme of finding someone to turn to when you really need help.
Let’s go back to the year 2017 when our lead song was in the top 5, and give us two songs from that particular top 10. At number 6 was a song from the man in the relationship about the lady’s coolness to him. “Cold enough to chill my bones,” they sing, “It feels like I don’t know you anymore. I don’t understand why you’re so cold to me. With every breath you breathe, I see there’s something going on. Are we taking time or a time out? I can’t take the in-between after everything that we’ve been through.” The whole song is basically reflecting on the fact that she looks like she is ready to break the relationship, but she doesn’t. As we think of some things that we should turn to in life, well, one of them would be the ability to get out of relationships when they are going nowhere. This is Maroon 5 featuring 42 year old American rapper singer Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn better known as Future from Maroon 5’s album “Red Pill Blues” and their song from 2017 “Cold” on MATT.
(triple) COLD / Maroon 5 f/ Future
MERCY / Shawn Mendes
4 MR KNOW IT ALL / Teddy Swims
Part 11
Number 4 in our current countdown on MATT from Teddy Swims from his album “Ugly,” and his song “Mr. Know It All”. He describes the song this way: the song explores the idea of a love that fails. “When you believe you already know how it ends, you protect yourself by holding back and that distance becomes the reason it fails. But when you try to fight that fate and control every outcome, you can end up suffocating the connection.” And so, some of his words: “Should’ve told you I could see this coming like I’m lookin’ right into a crystal ball. When I fall in love, it’s with misfortune. Give you everything you say you wanted, see the future like it’s written on the wall. You’re the only thing that’s missing from it. Oh, I wish I wasn’t Mr. Know It All.” The love situation is failing mainly because he is not working with the situation the way he should. In terms of our theme, if he wants to find someone to turn to, he is going to have to work at it.
Before him, we heard another song from 2017 from Shawn Mendes from his “Illuminate” album, and his song “Mercy”. It is a song about a lady in the relationship who has a hold on the man in that relationship and he can’t let go of her, although he should. “Please have mercy on me,” he sings, “Even though you don’t mean to hurt me, you keep tearing me apart. I’m not asking for a lot—just that you’re honest with me. I’m a puppet on your strings, and even though you got good intentions, I need you to set me free. Consuming all the air inside my lungs, I’m prepared to sacrifice my life.” He definitely should get out of the relationship because all it is doing is hurting him. And as we think of things to turn to in life, as I have said before, one of them is the ability to determine when to get out of relationships that are hurting us.
As usual, we close our show with our top 3 songs right now. They begin with a song that extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer that never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. Truly being in love with another human being is a way to live life, and that person will become the person he/she can turn to in struggle, our theme today. From the album of the same name as the song, “Midnight Sun” this is Zara Larsson at number 3 this week on MATT.
(double) 3 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Larsson
2 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
Part 12
Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 2 song right now, “I Just Might”, the R&B Song of the Year at this year’s Video Music Awards ceremonies on MATT. The song was a number 1 for a couple of weeks, a song of wanting another to show her love for the man in the relationship by good dancing. “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” As I have said, it is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in terms of our theme, good dancing can be considered to be something we can turn to as we learn love, although there are no doubt exceptions, simply because some people cannot dance well—I personally know that!
And the new number 1 song is from the talented artist Olivia Rodrigo from her album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” and her song “Drop Dead”. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone leading to a relationship may seem like a good thing, but if the couple do not grow into a real love situation, it will not end up well, and the person will have no one to turn to.
That theme of “What are some things or someone that we should turn to in life” was suggested by a song on my website on Friday from The Chainsmokers and Coldplay and their song “Something Just Like This.” My prayer for you and for me is that we will always turn to strong guiding principles in our lives. If you want to contact me, my e-mail address is: frmikescully@yahoo.com or the address at the radio station: KJLS-FM, Hays, 67601. My website as I have mentioned is frmikescully.com where you will find a transcript of the show and some meditations about living better from the Gospels, and some movies and some of the songs we play. My thanks to our producers and to our sponsors, some of whom include Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, TMP-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, Auto World in Hays and Hays Car and Truck Alignment. One final thought before we go from my quotebook marked “anonymous”: “Don’t wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.” As you listen to the new number 1 song in our land, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drop Dead”, may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103.3 and MATT’s final advice to you, among all of the thoughts today, is to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence KS through the likewise beautiful city of Hays, KS and to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
November 1, 2026
Commitments
Part 1
Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world! Thank you for joining us this first day and first Sunday of the beautiful Fall month of November 2026. I hope you had the time right this morning. Happy normal time, everyone. Welcome to MATT. Get set for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by the research from your requests, as well as the research of Mediabase 24-7 for the reporting date of today and get ready for some top 10 songs of the past as well. I am Fr. Mike, and you have your dial set to Mix 103.3, the number one popular music station in Central Kansas. Get ready now for a show dedicated to the thought of understanding the popular music of our day and helping our lives by means of it. Today we will talk a little about understanding the meaning of a permanent commitment.
The songs of our day speak about love an awful lot, of course, and almost always there is an idea of commitment that runs through them, and therefore we talk of that a lot. Our world doesn’t do well with commitments. I’ve mentioned before that we are often ruled by selfish human natures, and people of our world too often make what might be called “temporary permanent commitments.” Of course, such commitments are a contradiction, but they are so much easier than “permanent permanent commitments.” Granted that there are legitimate exceptions in which permanent commitments should be abandoned, but one wonders whether there should be as many exceptions as there are.
Of course, the answer to the problem of a permanent commitment comes before the commitment is made. People must spend time and study on questions like “Are you willing to say and mean ‘forever’?”; “Do you know what you are getting into?”; Are you aware of the scope of ‘for better and for worse’?”
The song on my website this Saturday speaks of a scenario in which that did not happen, and consequently they will have a failure in the relationship. The song is named “Unholy” which implies that making a firm commitment to love each other in marriage is a holy thing to do, and I think it is. So, it is a song about cheating on a commitment. “Mummy don’t know daddy’s getting hot at the body shop,” they sing, “Doing something unholy. A lucky girl she got married to a boy like you. She’d kick you out if she ever knew. Dirty boy, you know everyone is talkin’ on the scene. I hear them whisperin’ ‘bout the places that you’ve been and how you don’t know how to keep your business clean. He left the kids at home so he can get that.” The song seems to be describing what some young couples do if their commitment is weak. In terms of the overall effect it has on the young family, it is certainly not good, and in general will cause real chaos all through their lives.
That, of course, is the major problem with lack of commitment in my opinion—what it does to every member of the family, and how it will affect especially the children as they grow up in that environment. So let’s talk about commitment today, with what makes a good permanent commitment in general. MATT presenting a song about lack of commitment and our theme setter today, English singer/songwriter Samuel Frederick Smith better known simply as Sam Smith and German singer/songwriter Kim Petras based now in Los Angeles, and their song from 2022 from Sam Smith’s album “Gloria” “Unholy” on MATT.
(double) UNHOLY / Sam Smith & Kim Petras
HOLY / Justin Bieber f/ Chance the Rapper
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If we play a song called “Unholy” as we did to begin our show today, in my mind we should play one called “Holy”, and we did right there. It came from Canadian singer Justin Bieber along with Chancelor Jonathan Bennett better known as Chance the Rapper. The song came from 2020 from Justin Bieber’s album “Justice”, the name of the song “Holy” on MATT. As he said in Vogue magazine, “I wanted to rededicate myself to God ... because I really felt it was better for the condition of my soul. And I believe that God blessed me with Hailey (that is Hailey Baldwin his wife) as a result." “I hear a lot about sinners;” Justin Bieber begins his song, “Don’t think that I’ll be a saint, but I might go down to the river ‘cause the way that the sky opens up when we touch. It’s making me say that the way you hold me, feels so holy. On God runnin to the altar like a track star, can’t wait another second ‘cause the way you hold me feels so holy.” The man in the relationship feels holy because he was blessed by God to have met his wife, and apparently have made the opposite of the song “Unholy”, namely a real permanent commitment. Good song.
Let’s begin our countdown this morning. And as I said before, there are a number of our top 10 songs since 1980 that can be called “commitment songs.” This is one of them at number 10 and comes from the fact that the couple have given themselves completely to each other, namely physically, and now one of them just wants to be friends. It is a contradiction. He sings, “How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed? How can you look at me and pretend I’m someone you’ve never met?” It seems as though the lady in the relationship wants to have a breakup or at least a temporary time apart, but the two have already made it clear that they are committed to each other. It is unfortunately a common enough experience. In terms of our theme, we have to understand that the physical part of marriage is really part of a permanent commitment, and I don’t think we understand that as much as we should. My opinion, of course. This is from Shane Michael Boose, better known as sombr from his album “I Barely Know Her,”and his song at number 10 this morning, “Back to Friends” on MATT.
(triple) 10 BACK TO FRIENDS / sombr
9 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
8 PATIENT ZERO / Taylor Swift
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At number 8 in our countdown, a song of revenge as the lady in a once upon a time relationship talks directly to the new girlfriend of that lover. It is from her album “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore,” Taylor Swift and her song “Patient Zero” on MATT. She sings: “I’ve gotta be honest, I’ve been expecting your call.” She had heard that they were having difficulties in dating, and she tells her that she knows something about that: “If you wanna party with somebody who might know about the devil on his shoulder under his halo, when the toxins take their hold, you’d rather die than let it go. But if you’re sick of him, I got you, I was patient zero.” Patient zero is a person identified as the first to become infected with an illness or disease in an outbreak. Therefore in the song, the person who is singing was his first victim. In terms of our theme this week, she has gone through the breakup, and is advising his new girlfriend to have another one before any permanent commitment, our theme today, is made.
Before her, one of the songs of the Video Music Awards ceremonies this year that was nominated for song of the year from British singer/songwriter Olivia Lauryn Dean or simply Olivia Dean for the first time today on our show. It is from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her excellent song “Man I Need”. The song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any love relationship or any relationship really, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, baby, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme today, namely commitments, that which can cement a relationship into a permanent commitment is real communication.
We are asking the songs of our show about that thought of the makeup of a permanent commitment. Let me take you to break with a thought from George Carlin: “No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you’re screwed because it’s all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain’t in it.” Now, that describes how we feel sometimes to say the least. But, working with our human nature, we will withstand that feeling and say that I WILL join the club, and we will be stronger. Coming up for us in order of appearance are commitment songs from Katy Perry, David Cook, Jason Mraz, Ed Sheeran and Rob Thomas. I’m Fr. Mike inviting you to stay with us. Your dial is set for Mix 103.3 and you are listening to “Message at the Top”.
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You are in tune, my friends, with MATT, your top 10 show on Mix 103.3. Thank you for joining us this morning. We welcome you back to the songs that have been the most popular in this area during this past week that ends today. We take the top 10 of the present and past and study their messages, and then call our show MATT. I’m your host Fr. Mike. It’s great to have you here. We began our show with the song “Unholy” from Sam Smith and Kim Petras, and we are reflecting on permanent commitments.
Let’s begin a 5-pack of commitment songs and begin it by going to a statement by the girl in the relationship that if the man wants a commitment from her, she will give it, but he’d better be sure of what he’s doing. “I knew you were gonna come to me,” the lady in the relationship sings, “and here you are, but you better choose carefully ‘cause I’m capable of anything and everything. So you wanna play with magic, boy, you should know what you’re falling for. I’m coming at you like a dark horse. Are you ready for a perfect storm ‘cause once you’re mine, there’s no going back.” In terms of our theme today, if we are inclined to make a permanent commitment, we have to honestly mean it. This is a former number 1, a great song to talk about—another 10+ category of meaning for me—from Ms. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson better known as Katy Perry singing along with Jordan Michael Houston better known as Juicy J and their song “Dark Horse” from Katy Perry’s album “Prism” on MATT.
(double) DARK HORSE / Katy Perry
COME BACK TO ME / David Cook
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From the album named after him, him being American Idol number 7 David Cook, and “Come Back To Me” from 2009 on MATT. It is another song of strong commitment. “You say you gotta go and find yourself,” he sings, “you say that you’re becoming someone else. I know there’s really nothing left to say. Just know I’m here whenever you need me. I’ll wait for you. So I’ll let you go, I’ll set you free, and when you’ve seen what you need to see. / When you find you, come back to me.” It is a great statement of how people should handle breakups when one says to another that he/she needs a temporary time away. Real commitment, our theme today, is shown in the fact that he will wait. But there is another side to this, of course, and that is the situation in which the man has made the commitment—as he has in the song, and then the woman finds someone else. It is the situation in which he has sung—“when you’ve seen what you need to see,” and what she has seen is that their relationship is over. Then it becomes a problem because it moves from a commitment situation, our theme today, to a breakup situation. And that is tough to work with.
Let’s continue with three more commitment songs in this triple play beginning with a great song to study for all of us, I believe. “I won’t give up on us,” the person sings of their commitment to each other, “even if the skies get rough. I’m giving you all my love; I’m still looking up. And when you’re needing your space to do some navigating, I’ll be there patiently waiting to see what you find. I don't wanna be someone who walks away so easily. I'm here to stay and make the difference that I can make. Our differences, they do a lot to teach us how to use the tools and gifts we got. And in the end, you’re still my friend; at least we did intend for us to work. We didn’t break, we didn’t burn. We had to learn how to bend without the world caving in. I had to learn what I’ve got, and what I’m not, and who I am.” To me, the song is a perfect teaching tool to the people who choose marriage as a way of life. One of the ways to help make a commitment real, our theme today, is that the couple will know what a permanent commitment is. This is 49 year old Jason Mraz from his album “Love is Four Letter Word,” and his song “I Won’t Give Up” from 2012 on MATT.
(triple ) I WON’T GIVE UP / Jason Mraz
THINKING OUT LOUD / Ed Sheeran
EVER THE SAME / Rob Thomas
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From his album “Something To Be”, Rob Thomas, number 3 of all the songs of meaning of 2006, “Ever The Same” on MATT. It is another 10+ category of meaning song for me. “We were drawn from the weeds,” Rob Thomas begins the song, “we were brave like soldiers, falling down under the pale moonlight. You were holding on to me like someone broken, and I couldn’t tell you but I’m telling you now—just let me hold you while you’re falling apart, just let me hold you and we’ll both fall down. Fall on me, tell me everything you want me to be, forever with you, forever in me, ever the same.” The idea of commitment that is sung about all the time is so important for our world, and I’m convinced that if we would all understand the idea of a permanent commitment better, we would have a much better world.
Before him, we closed off our special songs of commitment with Ed Sheeran and his song “Thinking Out Loud.” It was the Song of the Year from 2015 according to the Grammys from his album “X” or a multiplication sign. It is a song that speaks of a solid commitment between lovers, and he adds a characteristic that is extremely important for any romantic commitment, and also for any other commitment. The nuance that he adds is that not only has the commitment occurred at one particular time, but he says that he will "fall in love every single day." There is no time limit when it comes to love. If we love someone, we will love them "right where they are," that is, every moment, every day. "When your legs don’t work like they used to before,” he sings, “and I can’t sweep you off of your feet, I fall in love with you every single day, and I just wanna tell you I am. I’m thinking out loud that we found love right where we are.” As I say, a great love commitment song, our theme today.
Good stuff being talked about here this morning, even as we offer some rather strong opinions. These songs make us really think about life and love. Our topic this morning is the thought of what a permanent commitment consists of. We will continue to search with that thought in mind on MATT in just a few moments with artists like Ariana Grande and The Kid Laroi. Let me take you to break with this thought. It is a challenge from author Charles Allen: “Remember that you are truly needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless YOU do it.” And my comment: take the time to figure out what we can do today that only we can do. Stay with us; we’ll be right back. You’ve got MATT on Mix 103.3.
This is MATT on Mix 103, and we welcome you back to the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our research and your requests. We call our show MATT because we take those top 10 songs and analyze their meanings and messages in the light of how we can live better in this complicated and complex world. I am Fr. Mike, your host for the top 10 show of today’s best music, and we are pursuing a theme from Sam Smith and Kim Petras and their song “Unholy.”
Let’s go back to our countdown as we begin our second hour together, and we are up to number 7. It is from Teddy Swims and he describes it this way: the song explores the idea of a love that fails. “When you believe you already know how it ends, you protect yourself by holding back and that distance becomes the reason it fails. But when you try to fight that fate and control every outcome, you can end up suffocating the connection.” And so, some of his words: “Should’ve told you I could see this coming like I’m lookin’ right into a crystal ball. When I fall in love, it’s with misfortune. Give you everything you say you wanted, see the future like it’s written on the wall. You’re the only thing that’s missing from it. Oh, I wish I wasn’t Mr. Know It All.” The love situation is failing mainly because he is not working with the situation the way he should. In terms of our theme, he is describing a breakup about to happen, and therefore a permanent commitment should never have been made. This is Teddy Swims from his album “Ugly,” and his song “Mr. Know It All”, number 7 this week on MATT.
(triple) 7 MR KNOW IT ALL / Teddy Swims
6 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike
5 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
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Our theme last week when we talked about breakups, Ms. Ariana Grande and her song at number 5 in our countdown from her album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me” on MATT. She sings: “Just know that I will find my way from you, like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” And she breaks up with him, and as one would guess, it was bitter—and the video shows it very well. It was a video that was nominated for best video of the year at this year’s VMA ceremonies. In terms of our theme this week, there’s no way the relationship could become a permanent commitment.
Before her, we heard number 6 in our countdown and a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. It comes from 30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll”, on MATT. “I can’t move on, babydoll, waitin’ on calls, flippin’ through stations. I’m outclassed and it’s outrageous, and I’ll take it all, babydoll, whatever’s been weighin’ you down. Find me on Miami concrete, lookin’ for somebody different ‘cause my daddy was a pimp; my mama had her issues, but I miss her anyway. Oh, babydoll, please don’t call me for the wrong reasons.” The man in the relationship is looking for love, and he may not have ever learned exactly what it is. In terms of our theme, he will never be able to make a permanent commitment until he straightens out the problems of his childhood. And that may be one of the major causes of messed up marriages in our world.
There are four songs on my website frmikescully.com this week. Besides our lead song from Sam Smith and Kim Petras and their song “Unholy” on Saturday, let’s play the other three in triple play right now. On Monday, the song is about the man in a relationship who no longer has the lady in the relationship around, it seems, and it is probably his fault, and therefore he will have to face the truth sometime. “I do the same thing that I told you that I never would,” they sing, “I told you I’d change, even when I knew I never could. I know that I can’t find nobody else as good as you; I need you to stay. I get drunk, wake up, I’m wasted still. I realize the time that I wasted here. I feel like you can’t feel the way I feel. I’ll be messed up if you can’t be right here.” I cleaned up the language a bit. In terms of our theme, before any permanent commitment can be made, the person in the song has some straightening out to do in his own life. The song we ranked at number 1 in 2022, this is The Kid Laroi or Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard, and singing with him is Justin Bieber, and their song ”Stay” on MATT.
(triple) STAY / The Kid Laroi f/ Justin Bieber
BREAK FREE / Ariana Grande
WHAT LOVERS DO / Maroon 5 f/ SZA
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The song on my website frmikescully.com on Friday, Rap singer Solana Imani Rowe, better known as SZA along with Maroon 5 and their song from Maroon 5’s album, “Red Pill Blues”, the song “What Lovers Do” from 2017. The song says what lovers have to do is to make up their minds about each other. “Tell me if you love me or not. I bet the house on you. Am I lucky or not? Been wishin’ for you. Are we too grown for games? Are we too grown to play around, young enough to chase, but old enough to know better? I can’t wait forever. Both of us should know better.” What lovers must do is study their relationship and determine whether it will last or not, and if they think it will, then the thought of a permanent commitment, our theme today, is in order.
Before them, we heard the song on my website this Tuesday, Ariana Grande-Butera better known as Ariana Grande and producer Zedd from Ariana Grande’s album “My Everything” and their song “Break Free” from the year 2014. It is a song that is initiating a break-up and the lady in the song feels good about it. “I should’ve said it before,” she sings, “I can’t pretend anymore. I only wanna die alive, never by the hands of a broken heart. Don’t wanna hear you lie tonight, now that I’ve become who I really am. This is the part when I say I don’t want ya. I’m stronger than I’ve been before. This is the part when I break free ‘cause I can’t resist it no more.” The video is very interesting, but goes another direction. In the song, she is determining the way to go after a bad relationship, and doing that well will actually make the breakup something good. Then she will be ready to make a permanent commitment, our theme today, in the future.
Ah, isn’t it interesting what these songs of popular music bring into our thought. “Commitments” is our thought this morning. We are asking our music to explore that idea which we will continue to do with our final segment in just one minute. Before that happens, we will have a break, and before that break, let me say this along with St. Sir Thomas More, the patron saint of one of our sponsors: “What you cannot turn to good, you must at least / make as little bad as you can.” What a great statement. I’m Fr. Mike, this radio station is Mix 103.3, this show is MATT, and we’ll be right back.
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Hi again, everyone! This is “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.3. Thank you for joining us this morning. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of our area, as well as some top 10’s of the past. And what is amazing about all of our songs is that with a little bit of help, they can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today concerns the thought of permanent commitments, something that our world should do a little better in my humble opinion.
Let’s begin our final portion of our show with a song that is basically a love song hoping for the love of someone who apparently is with someone else. “He tried to domesticate you,” he sings, “just let me liberate you, you don’t need no papers, that man is not your maker. And that’s why I’m gonna take a good girl. I know you want it. Can’t let it get past me, you’re far from plastic. I hate these blurred lines, but you’re a good girl, the way you grab me.” Human feelings are complicated. The song calls them "blurred." He is speaking of a love relationship, of course, and the situation of the song is a difficult one. The lady seems to be in a relationship with another, and the man is singing that he would like her to come to him. Consequently, the situation is "blurred" in his mind because he does not know whether she is or will be with him or not. As we consider our theme today of commitment, a commitment should only be made once we truly know our partner. MATT presenting here Mr. Robin Thicke singing with Clifford Joseph Harris Jr, better known as rapper T. I. and singer Pharrell Williams, from Robin Thicke’s album “Blurred Lines” and the title song from it from the year 2013 on MATT.
(triple) BLURRED LINES / Robin Thicke f/ T.I. & Pharrell
AIN’T NO OTHER MAN / Christina Aguilera
4 DRACULA / Tame Impala
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Our number 4 song this week from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula” on MATT. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre. The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and part of that understanding means that he has to move out of his desire to be alone and will involve knowing that if he doesn’t do that, he will never be able to make a permanent commitment, our theme today.
Before them, we heard a 2007 grammy award winning song from Christina Aguilera and her song “Ain’t No Other Man” from her album “Back to Basics.” It’s a rather straightforward love song, praising her boyfriend to the highest heavens. “Ain’t no other man on the planet that does what you do. You’re the kinda guy a girl finds in a blue moon. You got soul, you got class, you got style, ain’t no other man, it’s true, ain’t no other man but you.” I’d say that the lady in the song is really, really in love with the man. That type of devotion is excellent and can be considered as one of the characteristics of true love—devotion to another and it can easily lead to a sincere commitment, our theme today—if the man agrees, of course.
And we have made it to our top 3, the top 3 songs of our area. They begin with a song that extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. Truly being in love with another human being is a way to live life, and it will be defined as a permanent commitment to each other, our theme today. From the album of the same name as the song, “Midnight Sun” this is Zara Larsson at number 3 this week on MATT.
(double) 3 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Larsson
2 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
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Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 2 song right now, “I Just Might”, the R&B Song of the Year at this year’s Video Music Awards ceremonies on MATT. The song was a number 1 for a couple of weeks, a song of wanting another to show her love for the man in the relationship by good dancing. “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” As I have said, it is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in terms of our theme, can good dancing help with a permanent commitment, I think it most definitely can, but I say that with very little experience.
And the number 1 song is once again from British singer Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” the second time we have heard from her in the top 10 and the second song from that album, this time her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 17 weeks at number 1. Just so you know the record is 19 weeks. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone saying that their love would be permanent, our theme today.
Today we have considered some thoughts about that theme of commitments. We took the theme from the song on my website this week on Saturday, the interesting song “Unholy” from Sam Smith and Kim Petras. My prayer for you and me is that every one of us will understand love and when we make a permanent commitment, we will mean it. My thanks to our producers and to our sponsors, some of whom include Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, TMP-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays, Auto World in Hays and Hays Car and Truck Alignment. If you would like to comment on any of my comments, feel free to write me at KJLS-FM, Hays, America 67601 or e-mail me at frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is frmikescully.com where you will find a transcript of the show and some meditations on the Gospels, these songs and some great movies as well. You can join us on the web also every Sunday morning at 10 regular Central Time now by clicking on hayspost.com and choosing Mix 103.3. One final thought before we go from humorist Arnold Glasow who died in 1998: “Success is not a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” That is, you got to do some work before success can happen. As you listen to the number 1 song from Olivia Dean and her song “So Easy” may I remind you that you are listening to today’s best music Mix 103.3 and MATT’s advice to you, among the things that we have said already, is to hold a good thought. From beautiful downtown Lawrence KS through the likewise beautiful city of Hays, KS and to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean
October 25, 2026
Breakups
Part 1
Good morning, Central Kansas and around the world! Welcome to “Message at the Top,” and happy Halloween at the end of the week to all of you. May Halloween be full of treats, with no tricks at all for you. Welcome to Mix 103.3’s unique top 10 show, “Message at the Top”. I am Fr. Mike, your host and get ready for the top 10 songs of our area as determined by our own research and Mediabase 24-7 as of today, October 25, 2026. We here at Mix 103.3 continue to give you only the very best in radio entertainment, / and that includes not only the songs that we play, but their messages as well. This morning, we have top 10 songs from today and yesterday, concentrating on the current top 10 and top 10 songs of the recent past.
And we’ll begin our show with a 5-pack of Ariande Grande songs. The reason is her latest song at number 5 this week. First a couple thoughts about Ms. Grande. She is 33 years old from Boca Raton, Florida, and therefore American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Her awards include 2 Grammy Awards, 1 BRIT Award, 2 Billboard Music Awards, 3 American Music Awards, 13 MTV Video Music Awards and 36 Guiness World Records. Rolling Stone named her one of the greatest vocalist of all time. She began her career at age 15 and rose to fame for her role as Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon series Victorious. She is quite an accomplished artist.
Her song is about a breakup, a common topic of these songs. And the reason why is that most people will not marry after their first romantic meeting, and therefore, there will be breakups. Breakups are very difficult, and we must be careful about what we do and say after we suffer through them. A romantic breakup disturbs a person's whole being and demeanor. People who suffer them feel terrible, at least for a while. But, the important thought with breakups is what we do after we suffer them. The feelings of a breakup will pass, but what we do as a result may not pass so quickly.
In Ariana Grande’s song here, she sings: “Just know that I will find my way from you, like flowers from a tomb while you decide who you are. And I can see right through like shadows on the moon and it’s all bad news. I hate that I made you love me, sorry if I made me your type. Yeah, I hate that I made you love me ‘cause I barely tried. What’s happening now? You studied my crown and borrowed my body, warm, kissed by the sun, then cold like the wind, a bee stuck in honey. Know that I will find my way from you. I hate that I made you love me.” And she breaks up with him, and as one would guess, it was bitter—and the video shows it very well. By the way that video was nominated for best video of the year at this year’s VMA ceremonies.
Let’s make our theme simply the word “Breakups” and see what the songs add to that thought. We’ll hear a triple of specifically breakup songs a little later in our show, but let’s begin with this song from Ariana Grande and begin a 5-pack in her honor, number 5 in our countdown from her album “Petal,” “Hate That I Made You Love Me” on MATT.
(double) 5 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME / Ariana Grande
NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY / Ariana Grande
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The second song of a 5-pack of her songs, Ariana Grande from her album “Sweetener”, and her song “No Tears Left to Cry” on MATT. It is a really good song with a great message, I believe. That message is that she has to change her way of behavior to something more positive. “Right now,” she begins her song, “I’m in a state of mind I wanna be in like all the time. Ain’t got no tears left to cry, so I’m pickin’ it up, I’m lovin’, I’m livin’, I’m pickin’ it up. Oh, I just want you to come with me. We’re on another mentality.” She seems to have felt sorry for herself long enough, and now she is ready to move on. Good attitude, I believe. In terms of our theme today, one of the causes of breakups of relationships is the fact that we feel sorry for ourselves. Interesting video to the song by the way.
As promised we are playing a 5-pack of her songs, her being Ariana Grande and let’s go to a song about a problem, this time from Ariana Grande along with Iggy Azalea. It speaks of a love problem: “Hey, even though I hate ya, I wanna love ya, I want you! And even though I can’t forgive you, I really want to. Tell me, why can’t you leave me? ‘Cause even though I shouldn’t want it, I gotta have it. Head in the clouds, got no weight on my shoulders, I should be wiser and realize that I’ve got one less problem without ya!” So, a love problem, and the lady in the relationship realizes what she should do, but she really likes the guy. In terms of our theme, she is thinking correctly as she tries to solve the problem—she is spending time thinking about what happened and realizing that her life is better without the problem and will probably cause a breakup, our theme today, if she stays with the man in the relationship. This is Ariana Grande along with Iggy Azalea and their song “Problem” from the year 2014 from Ariana Grande’s album “My Everything” on MATT.
(triple) PROBLEM / Ariana Grande f/ Iggy Azalea
WE CAN’T BE FRIENDS / Ariana Grande
BREATHIN’ / Ariana Grande
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Closing off a 5-pack from her, Ariana Grande and her song “Breathin’” from 2018 on MATT. It is from her album “Sweetener”. It is an answer to the problems in our world, namely to just let them happen, and deal with them slowly. “Some days,” she sings, “things just take way too much of my energy. I look up and the whole room’s spinning. You take my cares away. I can so over complicate, people tell me to medicate, feel my blood runnin’, swear the sky’s fallin’. I know that all this stuff’s fabricated. Time goes by and I can’t control my mind, don’t know what else to try, but you tell me every time, just keep breathin’.” He is giving her great advice, I think. Just slow down and breathe deeply. In terms of our theme, one way to prevent breakups is to take the time to sit down and talk things out.
Before her, her again, Ariana Grande and her song from her album “Eternal Sunshine,” and, her song “We Can’t Be Friends”. The video is very good again, and you may need an explanation of it as you would find in Wikipedia. The song is about the demise of a relationship with the hope that an ex-lover will return and fall in love again. “I didn’t think you’d understand me; how could you ever even try?” she sings, “I don’t wanna tiptoe, but I don’t wanna hide. But I don’t wanna feed this monstrous fire. Just wanna let this story die. And I’ll be alright. We can’t be friends, but I’d like to just pretend. You cling to your papers and pens, wait until you like me again, wait for your love, I’ll wait for your love. We can’t be friends, but at least I’d like to pretend.” It sounds like she is in despair, and perhaps one of the things that could help her is to at least be thankful for some time that she had with her partner in the past; it might make the breakup, our theme today, easier.
Important words being said here, not because I said them, but because if people would know them, we’d be able to understand our life and breakups a little better, I believe. What great messages these songs have. Let me take you to break with a thought from Bonnie Prudden, a physical fitness pioneer who died in 2011: “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” That is, we can work to make some more time for ourselves and some time to work out good plans to help ourselves and others, and in the process, stay away from breakups. Our show is called MATT; I am Fr. Mike, and I hope your Sunday of the weekend before Halloween is a good one for you. Don’t go way; “Message at the Top” on Mix 103.3 will be right back.
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This is MATT and it is so good to have you back with us. We welcome you back to the top 10 songs of our area as of the week ending today, and we welcome you back to some top 10 songs of the past as well. And with our music, we always give the meanings of the songs. I’m Fr. Mike, your host for the only top 10 show of its kind in this area, maybe in the world, the show that takes the top songs and explains their messages, and then we call the show “Message at the Top.” The topic of our show this morning was given to us by superstar Ariana Grande and her song “Hate That I Made You Love Me” and we are talking about breakups and how they affect our lives.
Let’s go back to our countdown right now and go to numbers 10 and 9. At number 10, a song of revenge as the lady in a once upon a time relationship talks directly to the new girlfriend of that lover. Taylor Swift sings: “I’ve gotta be honest, I’ve been expecting your call.” She had heard that they were having difficulties in dating, and she tells her that she knows something about that: “If you wanna party with somebody who might know about the devil on his shoulder under his halo, when the toxins take their hold, you’d rather die than let it go. But if you’re sick of him, I got you, I was patient zero.” Patient zero is a person identified as the first to become infected with an illness or disease in an outbreak. Therefore in the song, the person who is singing was his first victim. In terms of our theme this week, she has already gone through the breakup, and is advising his new girlfriend to have another one. From her album “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore,” this is Taylor Swift at number 10 on our countdown, “Patient Zero” on MATT.
(double) 10 PATIENT ZERO / Taylor Swift
9 MAN I NEED / Olivia Dean
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Coming back into our countdown around here, one of the songs of the VMA ceremonies this year that was nominated for song of the year from British singer/songwriter Olivia Lauryn Dean or simply Olivia Dean for the first time today on our show. This is from her album “The Art of Loving,” and her excellent song “Man I Need” on MATT. The song is the statement of what I call the virtue which is most needed in any love relationship or any relationship really, namely, communication. “Talk to me,” she begins her song, “looks like we’re making up for lost time; need you to spell it out for me. Don’t be shy, just come be the man I need. Tell me you got something to give. I want it. I kinda like when you call me wonderful, whatever the type of talk it is. Come on then, I gotta know you’re meant to be the man I need. Talk to me. I’d like to think you feel the same way, but I can’t tell with you sometimes. So, baby, let’s get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” So, communication and she gives the reason why. In terms of our theme today, namely breakups, that which can keep a relationship from breaking up is real communication.
As promised, we wanted to play a triple of breakup songs from the past. We begin the triple with a great one. “I miss knowing what you’re thinking,” the boyfriend says in the song, “and hearing how your day has been. Do you think you can tell me everything? But leave out every part about him. Right now, you’re probably by the ocean while I’m still out here in the rain. Maybe it’s supposed to be this way. But oh, my love, I wanna say, ‘I miss the green in your eyes’ and when I said we could be friends, guess I lied. I wanna say ‘I wish you never left,’ But instead, I only wish you the best. I wanna say, ‘Without you, everything’s wrong’ and you were everything I need all along. I wanna say ‘I wish that you never left’, but instead, I only wish you the best.” To me it is an unbelievable attitude—he has broken up with her, our theme today, and it was difficult, of course, but he has accepted it and moved on with very good thinking. He still needs love but he has chosen to look for the romantic kind in another setting. Great song. This is Glasgow, Scotland-born Lewis Capaldi and his song “Wish You the Best” from his album “Broken by Desire to be Heavenly Sent” from 2023 on MATT.
(triple ) WISH YOU THE BEST / Lewis Capaldi
THE DEAD DANCE / Lady Gaga
THIS IS HOW A HEART BREAKS / Rob Thomas
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The close of a triple play of breakup songs, the leader of the band Matchbox Twenty, Mr. Rob Thomas, sings of real pain there from his album “Something To Be,” from 2005, and the song “This Is How a Heart Breaks” on MATT. “Life is like a mean machine,” he sings, “It made a mess outta me. It left me caught between; like an angry dream I was stranded. And I’m steady but I’m starting to shake, and I don’t know how much more I can take. This is it now. Everybody get down; this is all I can take. This is how a heart breaks. You take a hit now, you feel it break down, make you stay wide away. This is how a heart breaks.” Like I say, a song of pain, and there is no hope in the song—“never get what I want,” he sings. That’s probably not true, but it is how he feels. As I just said, breakups, our theme today, are difficult and cause a bunch of pain.
Before him, we heard from Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta or Lady Gaga and her song “The Dead Dance,” a song which fits into this season of Halloween quite well. Actually, it is a part of the soundtrack to the second season of the Netflix show “Wednesday” in which Lady Gaga appears. According to Lady Gaga, the inspiration for the song was a breakup, our theme today, and it is all about the way that we feel when it’s over—how a relationship ending can kill our ability to feel hopeful about love. But it is a happy song in that she’s having fun with friends after she has been through something tough. “Like the words of a song,” she begins, “I hear you call; like a thief in my head, you criminal. You stole my thoughts before I dreamed them, and you killed my queen with just one pawn. This goodbye is no surprise; this goodbye won’t make me cry. Yeah, I’ll keep on dancin’ until I’m dead. ‘Cause when you killed me inside, that’s when I came alive. Yeah, the music’s gonna bring me back from death. You’ve created a creature of the night—now I’m haunting your air, your soul, your eyes.” An interesting video also. In terms of our theme, it is doing the right thing to get over a breakup, and she’s doing that by dancing even though she is “dead.”
And, we have played our way to a brief hiatus, as we close off our first hour together. In the second hour, get ready for music from Zara Larsson and the band Train among others. We began our show with a song from Ariana Grande, and we are speaking of breakups today. Leading us into our break, here is a thought from Mr. or Ms. Anonymous: "Happiness is like jam. You can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself.” And we can be happy even with breakups as Lady Gaga just told us. Don’t go way. I’m Fr. Mike, and this is the “Message at the Top” music network.
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Hi again, everybody. This is MATT on Mix 103. I am Fr. Mike and this is “Message at the Top” on 100,000 watts of power, today’s best music, Mix 103.3, our only top 10 show which gives you not only the current top 10 but top 10 music of the 2000’s and some of the 90’s and even some 80’s and we give you the meanings of the songs at the same time. The title of our show this morning is “Breakups” and we are studying all the songs of our show asking them to shed some light on that topic.
Let’s go back to our countdown to start this second hour together, and go to number 8 from Teddy Swins. He describes it this way: the song explores the idea of a love that fails. “When you believe you already know how it ends, you protect yourself by holding back and that distance becomes the reason it fails. But when you try to fight that fate and control every outcome, you can end up suffocating the connection.” And so, some of his words: “Should’ve told you I could see this coming like I’m lookin’ right into a crystal ball. When I fall in love, it’s with misfortune. Give you everything you say you wanted, see the future like it’s written on the wall. You’re the only thing that’s missing from it. Oh, I wish I wasn’t Mr. Know It All.” The love situation is failing mainly because he is not working with the situation the way he should. In terms of our theme, he is describing a breakup about to happen. This is Teddy Swims from his album “Ugly,” and his song “Mr. Know It All”, number 8 this week on MATT.
(triple) 8 MR KNOW IT ALL / Teddy Swims
7 DRACULA / Tame Impala
6 BABYDOLL / Dominic Fike
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Number 6 in our countdown and a song of a person who cannot let go of a previous love relationship / perhaps because of a very difficult childhood. It comes from 30 year old Dominic Fike born in Naples, Florida, and his song “Babydoll”, on MATT. “I can’t move on, babydoll, waitin’ on calls, flippin’ through stations. I’m outclassed and it’s outrageous, and I’ll take it all, babydoll, whatever’s been weighin’ you down. Find me on Miami concrete, lookin’ for somebody different ‘cause my daddy was a pimp; my mama had her issues, but I miss her anyway. Oh, babydoll, please don’t call me for the wrong reasons.” The man in the relationship is looking for love, and he may not have ever learned exactly what it is. In terms of our theme, breakups will come too easily if we do not learn to love well early on.
Before him, we heard our number 7 song from Tame Impala, the musical project of Australian instrumentalist Kevin Parker and he is accompanied by South Korean singer Jennie. It is from the album “Deadbeat” and the song “Dracula” on MATT. The song is about a person who is wanting a love connection while at the same time not wanting to come out of his chosen hidden life. Comparing the person in the song to a vampire, they sing: “The morning light is turning blue, the feeling is bizarre. The night is almost over, I still don’t know where you are. The shadows, they keep me like a movie star, daylight makes me feel like Dracula. In the end, I hope it’s you and me in the darkness, I would never leave. Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” The man in the relationship is growing up trying to understand love, and part of that understanding means that he has to move out of his desire to be alone and will involve knowing that if he doesn’t do that, he will easily fall into breakups with his romantic relationships. Because of its title, namely “Dracula,” its a good Halloween song.
Let’s take the time to play the songs on my website this week frmikescully.com and then wish a happy birthday in this triple play. First, a song on my website this Friday. I like to look at the song in as positive a way as possible, even though the lady in the relationship is being negative toward the man. From his point of view, he wants the love between her and him to be honest and good, savage in the sense of very strong. “If I woke up without you, I don’t know what I would do,” he sings, “Thought I could be single forever ‘til I met you. I just found out, the only reason that you lovin’ me was to get back at your ex-lover, but before you leave—usually I would never even care. Every night and every day I try to make you stay, but your savage love, I still want that.” In my humble opinion, the right thing to do is to move on in his love life, that is, he should break up right then, our theme today, but it doesn’t seem like he will. This is Jason Joel Desruleaux from the year 2020 with the song produced by Jawsh 685, and their song “Savage Love” on MATT.
(triple) SAVAGE LOVE / Jason Derulo & Jawsh 685
50 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE / Train
TALKING BODY / Tove Lo
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Happy birthday to her, Swedish singer Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson, that is Tove Lo’s birthday on Thursday when she will be 39 years old. In her honor we heard her song “Talking Body” from 2015. It comes from her album “Queen of the Clouds” and a song of begging another to stay with her. “Bed,” she begins her song, “stay in bed. The feeling of your skin locked in my head. Smoke, smoke me broke, I don't care: I'm down for what you want. Day drunk into the night, wanna keep you here ‘cause you dry my tears. Yeah, summer lovin' and fights. How it is for us, and it's all because now if we're talking body, you got a perfect one, swear it won't take you long. If you love me right, we act for life on and on and on.” I cleaned up the words there a little. If one finds him or herself begging another to be part of a relationship, as in the song, that is an introduction to a breakup, our theme today.
Before her, we heard the song that is on my website this Tuesday, the band Train’s song “50 Ways to Say Goodbye” from 2012 from their album “California 37,” and a former number 1. It is a song of how to deal with pain, and specifically how to deal with someone who has left the relationship with the person in the song: “My heart is paralyzed,” the group Train sings the thoughts of the man in the relationship, “My head was over-sized. I’ll take the high road like I should. You said it’s meant to be, that it’s not you, it’s me. You’re leaving now for my own good. That’s cool, but if my friends ask where you are, I’m gonna say,”—and he goes on to make up all kinds of things to say about her leaving—things like she fell into a cement mixer full of quicksand, met a shark underwater—and always ending with the words “help me, help me, I’m no good at goodbyes, I’m all out of lies, and ways to say you died.” Although it almost sounds like a happy song, it is a song of dishonesty since he will not face the truth about his situation. In terms of our theme, unless the person becomes honest, breakups will continue in his love relationships.
Our theme today is that idea of breakups. Our next set of music and message will explore that theme with a couple of Halloween songs and then the top 4 songs in our land. Let me go to break with this thought from the creator of Peanuts, Mr. Charles Schulz: “Life is like a ten speed bicycle: most of us have gears we never use.” Oh, so true. If we learn to use just a couple more of them, our world would get a lot better because we would probably learn a lot more than we know now. I’m Fr. Mike, listen to these words of wisdom, and then I hope you come back for more.
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Hi, everyone! Happy Halloween in a couple of days and welcome back to “Message at the Top”, our top 10 show on Mix 103.3. I am Fr. Mike, and our show gives you the top 10 songs of today and the past 46 years. And what is amazing about all of our songs is that with a little bit of help, they can actually teach us something about ourselves and about our behavior. The topic of our show today concerns breakups. The thought came from Ms. Ariana Grande and her breakup song “Hate That I Made You Love Me”, number 5 in our countdown.
And speaking of Halloween, let’s play a couple of songs that DJ’s are apt to play around Halloween time. The artist said of this song, “Writing this song helped me sort through lots of feelings of regret, anger and heartache.” And so, she sings, “Hate to give you the satisfaction of asking how you’re doing now; how’s the castle built off people you pretend to care about. Just what you wanted. I loved you truly, you gotta laugh at the stupidity ‘cause I’ve made some real big mistakes. I should’ve known it was strange. You only come out at night; I used to think I was smart, but you made me look so naive, the way you sold me for parts, as you sunk your teeth into me, oh, bloodsucker, dream crusher, bleeding me dry like a vampire.” Indeed, anger at the person that hurt her. This is the feeling after the breakup, our theme today, and as I have said with breakups, we really have to learn to control ourselves as we feel this much anger. This is 23 year old Olivia Rodrigo, and her song from the year 2023, from her album “Guts”, “Vampire” on MATT.
(triple) VAMPIRE / Olivia Rodrigo
THE MONSTER / Eminem f/ Rihanna
4 DROP DEAD / Olivia Rodrigo
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The talented artist Olivia Rodrigo from her album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” and her song “Drop Dead”, number 4 this morning on our countdown. It is a song about being totally infatuated with someone as a beginning love experience. She begins her song: “I know that the bar closes at 11, but I hope you never finish that beer. You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven,’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here. One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition ‘cause I always had a vision of us standing like this. You’re lookin’ like an angel on the walls of Versailles, the most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dead.” The person in the song is completely infatuated with the man, and portrays the intense feeling of an early romance, referring to a similar experience as described in the song “Just Like Heaven.” In terms of our theme today, being infatuated with someone leading to a relationship may seem like a good thing, but if the couple do not grow into a real love situation, it will easily end up in a breakup, our theme today.
Before her, we played another song that makes one think of Halloween more or less. It came from 2013 and is one of our very high songs of meaning, a really interesting song to study from Marshall Bruce Mathers III better known as Eminem and Robin Rihanna Fenty, better known as Rihanna, part of Eminem’s album “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” and the name of the song “The Monster”. It has a great video by the way. The words of the rap part of the song are difficult to catch, but it is the story of a mental sickness that has taken over the mind of the person in the song, maybe autobiographical—Eminem himself, who has given into the glory of the moment—“I wanted the fame,” he sings. Fame made him a balloon that finally blew. He calls it a monster that he has accepted. “I’m friends with the monster that’s under my bed,” the person sings, “get along with the voices of my head. You’re trying to save me, stop holding your breath; and you think I’m crazy.” His friend is trying to help him, knowing that that “monster” in his life has caused lots of problems, one of them, probably a romantic breakup, our theme today.
We continue our countdown now as we give you the final three songs of our countdown and the top 3 songs of our area. They begin with a song that extols, according to the singer, her Swedish roots, and in particular a summer than never ends. “No nightmares when you can still see the light,” she sings, “can’t find me—I’m not in the city tonight. I like your playlist, boy, turn it up a little louder; road’s empty, so you drive a little faster. Ain’t taken nothing tonight, but I’m feeling so high. Show my tan lines, low-rise, rooftop down, it’s golden hour all the time. It’s that midnight sun-kissed skin under the red sky. Summer isn’t over yet, it’s my favorite part now. We ain’t gotta tell no one: a never-ending midnight sun.” Sweden is a land of literally a midnight sun at least during the summer, and the singer recalls that fact in her love of a friend. Truly being in love with another human being is a way to live life, and and if we do it well, there will be no breakup in the future, our theme today. From the album of the same name as the song, “Midnight Sun” this is Zara Larsson at number 3 this week on MATT.
(double) 3 MIDNIGHT SUN / Zara Larsson
2 I JUST MIGHT / Bruno Mars
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Bruno Mars, that is Peter Gene Hernandez, from his album “The Romantic” and his number 2 song right now, “I Just Might”, the R&B Song of the Year at this year’s VMA ceremonies on MATT. The song was a number 1 for a couple of weeks, a song of wanting another to show her love for the man in the relationship by good dancing. “It would break my heart” he sings, “if I find out you can’t move. You better show me now ‘cause when I take you to the floor, you gotta get down. Hey, Mr. DJ, play a song for this pretty little lady ‘cause if she dance as good as she look right now, I just might make her my baby.” As I have said, it is a rather selfish song in the sense that the man is really only thinking of himself, and in terms of our theme, can good dancing help prevent a breakup. Sometimes, I guess, although I have very little personal experience.
And the number 1 song is once again from British singer Olivia Dean, from her album “The Art of Loving,” the second time we have heard from her in the top 10 and the second song from that album, this time her song “So Easy”, making it altogether 16 weeks at number 1. Just so you know the record is 19 weeks. It is a song of the desire for love of one particular person. “I could be the twist, the one to make you stop,” she begins the song, “The icing on the cake, the cherry on the top. It’s heaven in my heart, and we could find you some space. I could be the world to you, the missing piece, that extra kind of chemistry. Some people make it hard; with me, that isn’t the case ‘cause I make it so easy to fall in love. So, come give me a call, and we’ll fall into us. I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life. Anyone with a heart would agree: it’s so easy to fall in love with me.” So, a rather straightforward statement to someone saying that their love would be permanent, and therefore would not break up, our theme today.
That theme of breakups and some reflections on them was taken from Ariana Grande’s number 5 song “Hate That I Made You Love Me.” My prayer for you and me is that we will understand what causes breakups and learn to love instead. My thanks to our producers and sponsors, especially our sponsors at Hays Car and Truck Alignment, Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Auto World in Hays and Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior and Senior High School in Hays. If you want to contact me by mail, I hope you do so at KJLS radio, Hays, KS, 67601 or my e-mail address is frmikescully@yahoo.com. My website is frmikescully.com where you will find some meditations on the Gospels, these songs and some great movies and a transcript of this show. If you want to join us on the web, go to hayspost.com and click on Mix 103.3 at 10 am CDT. A final quote from Voltaire, a French philosopher who died in 1778 speaking of someone who had a lot of answers: “He must be very ignorant / for he answers every question he is asked.” Well said, Mr. Voltaire. Good stuff there. As we close with Olivia Dean’s very popular song “So Easy”, may I remind you to hold a good thought. Speaking to you from beautiful downtown Lawrence KS, and then through the likewise beautiful Hays, KS, and to the world, my name is Fr. Mike Scully. Be safe, peace to you, and be good.
1 SO EASY / Olivia Dean