Higher

On October 17th, 1999, the New York Mets stayed alive in the NLCS with a dramatic win against the Atlanta Braves, fueling local sports pop culture.

The number one single and album on Sunday, October 17th, 1999, when Edge teamed with his kayfabe brother, Christian, to take on Matt and Jeff Hardy's in a ladder match in the middle of the WWF No Mercy 1999 card in Cleveland, Ohio Starting with the number one single being Heartbreaker by Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z, and the number one album was Human Clay album by Creed with Are You Ready, What If, Higher, and With Arms Wide Open as singles off that Human Clay album by Creed.

[rock music] Can you take me higher? To a place where I might see.

Can you take me higher? To a place with golden streets.

What do you have, Jesse? [laughs] All right.

If, if you've been sharing content on Instagram lately, you may have noticed that one of the songs that is being recommended to you to accompany your, you know, your, your fun videos from your weekend outing is Creed's, the, the, the big hit, Higher.

Uh, Cameron, for people who haven't f- aren't familiar with that song, let's go ahead and play a little clip.

Let me take you higher.

[laughs] Like we live in te- you know, we live in, in divisive times.

What was it like when we were all together and sitting around TVs just watching Creed kill it during the halftime?

So it sees me trying to add a story of going out to dinner with my friends last night, and it's recommending "Higher" to remind me of the greatness of community and America and where we aspire to be again.

I got it.

...

I want you to know that, uh, this previous 9/11 we went to karaoke, and I sang, uh, Creed's Can You Take Me Higher and introduced it [laughs] as, "This one's for the troops," and then sang the whole thing.

[laughs]

And it was amazing.

Highly recommend any time you go to karaoke-

Yeah

... sing to the troops Creed Can You Take Me Higher.

Uh, and just say, "Never forget" as much as you want.

Our next story is from Consequence of Sound.

Instagram apologizes for repeatedly suggesting Creed's Higher to, to users.

Oh.

So you know how when you're gonna go to select a song-

Um, so yeah, you do have to be careful.

But Creed, I would be really mad if that posted.

They're recommending Creed's 1999 hit, Higher, as background music for its Stories feature.

Why?

The Sunday Session.

Can you take me higher To a place where blind men see

So if you're wondering why we're playing Creed, their song Higher, remember 1999, I think? That is because Instagram have had to issue an apology saying that, look, we're terribly sorry.

We don't know why our algorithm has repeatedly suggested that you put Creed's Higher to all your stories and everything that you post.

But it has been.

Um...

It's the iHeartRadio Rock Report.

You know, thanks to a recent glitch, Creed's song Higher has been receiving a higher profile on Instagram.

So what happened to take Creed's Higher? Well, Higher on the social media platform, that is.

It turns out it was chosen by an Instagram algorithm as a recommendation to accompany pretty much anything that was photographed or filmed, according to CNN.

Users reportedly started noticing the atypical amount of Creed recommendations and began to suspect something was amiss and started sharing the accounts of Instagram over zealous Creed recommendations.

I can't prove it, but pretty sure Creed is paying Meta to suggest their song higher on all Instagram stories, shared one person on X back in August.

Another commented in September, posted on Instagram about how Instagram always tries to make me add higher by Creed to my stories, and it turns out it happens to other people.

I feel like I'm undercovering a big conspiracy.

They climbed a tree?

"Can You Take Me Higher by Creed? Is that what you're-

No, it's opposite

... looking for?" And they're like, "Nope."