American in Peril

in this one we recap the kendrick/drake beef, discourse about the charli xcx 360 video, and debate the pros and cons of spotify payola. it's a music episode!

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sources:

The Kendrick Lamar/Drake Beef, Explained - Frazier Tharpe, GQ

Drake/Kendrick beef songs in order - r/KendrickLamar thread

POP SONG REVIEW: Drake and Kendrick's feud to end all feuds - Todd in the Shadows, YouTube

Genius.com for lyrics just generally, obviously

Ep. 82 - Study Break - Mother Toilet Plumbing Department - Nymphet Alumni podcast

Tweet by erewhonsmoothie

Could Spotify's New Discovery Mode Be Considered Payola? - Noah Yoo, Pitchfork

stuff I mentioned in this episode:

Kendrick Lamar - euphoria; 6:16 in LA; Meet the Grahams; Not Like Us

Drake - First Person Shooter; Push Ups; Taylor Made Freestyle; Family Matters; The Heart Part 6

Metro Boomin - Like That

Pusha T - Story of Adidon

Charli XCX - 360

Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter

Valley of the Dolls (1967, dir. Mark Robson)

Contempt (1963, dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

Late Night with the Devil (2023, dir. Cameron and Colin Cairnes)

Lilya 4-ever (2002, dir. Lukas Moodysson)

Fucking Amal/Show Me Love (1998, dir. Lukas Moodysson)

heyyyyyy ladies don't be mad at me... I'm reviewing the new taylor swift album. also, conversations on coachella, tavi gevinson, mitski, and troye sivan's youtube era with my best friend mikayla!

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media/readings from this episode:

Lana Del Rey - Ride

Did Frank Ocean Even Want to Be at Coachella? - Reanna Cruz, Vulture

Ponty's Revenge - Bandcamp

Tongues - Spotify

The Idol (HBO)

The Fault in Our Stars - Troye Sivan

The Boyfriend Tag (ft. Troye Sivan) - Tyler Oakley

Madonna's New Beat Is a Hit, But Song's Message Rankles - Georgia Dullea, The New York Times

The Tortured Poets Department - Taylor Swift

Songs mentioned from the above ^: The Tortured Poets Department, Guilty as Sin?, I Look in People's Windows, I Hate It Here, So High School, Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

First Love / Late Spring - Mitski

All Too Well - Taylor Swift (gotta rec a good song lol)

Rookie Mag archives

Fan Fiction - Tavi Gevinson

Matty Healy Hasn’t ‘Really Listened to Much’ of Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ Album, ‘but I’m Sure It’s Good’ - Steven J. Horowitz - Variety

Zillennial Breakdown - Mikayla and I's shared nostalgic internet culture podcast!

Heroines - Kate Zambreno

all about love - bell hooks

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson

this time we're talking awards season! we cover the golden globes, the grammys, and tonights oscars noms. i'm always right so you should really heed my words. thank you.

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sources:

Inside the Golden Globes’ New “Box Office Achievement” Category - Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair

Here's How the Grammys Sort Artists into Awards Categories - Alternative Press

Pop Crave Tweet w/ Grimes comment about Grammys re: SOPHIE snub

Killer Mike says arrest at Grammys stems from altercation with an ‘over-zealous’ security guard - Jonathan Landrum Jr., AP News

Taylor Swift is Ruining Vinyl - The Needle Drop

All nominees/winners pulled from their respective award show websites - Golden Globes, GRAMMYs, and Academy Awards

stuff to check out:

Poor Things (2023)

May December (2023)

Oppenheimer (2023)

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Zone of Interest (2023)

The Holdovers (2023)

Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

Succession

The Bear

Barry

Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

SZA - SOS

in this episode of american in peril, the first with guests, we have a chat about dating apps; why they suck, what's kind of good about them, and why recording yourself for hinge is cringe. I'm not single so thank you mikayla and tera for coming on and talking about your dating lives with me!!

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sources:

The who, where and why of online dating in the U.S. - Pew Research Center, Colleen McClain and Risa Gelles-Watnick

Most young men are single. Most young women are not. - The Hill, Daniel de Visé

Match Group, Wikipedia

Tinder Unveils New "Rizz-First" Design - Hypebeast, Sarah Kearns

Tinder's 'Rizz-First' Design Feels Rizz-Free To Me - Business Insider, Kai Xiang Teo

Subscription Tiers - Tinder's official website

supplementary content:

would you rather? - Archival footage of Mikayla, Tera, and I lmfao

Zillennial Breakdown podcast

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Succession

New Girl (specifically "Pepperwood", S2E14)

welcome back, sorry it took so long but I'm committed now baby!! this very long episode is a lot of things: a voicing of frustrations, a history of club culture in the western hemisphere, and a call to go have a good time.

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sources!

Wikipedia pages referenced: "Spiders Georg", "Gender differences in suicide", "Nightclub", "Zazou", "Swingjugend", "Club drugs", "Rave", "Third place"

Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation - U.S. Surgeon General report, 2023

Frilly dresses and white supremacy: welcome to the weird, frightening world of ‘trad wives’ - Sian Norris - The Guardian

New York's Hottest Club is the Catholic Church - Julia Yost - NYT

Loneliness is a struggle for new parents - can we all stop pretending everything's ok? - Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - The Guardian

Is Tradwife Content Dangerous, or Just Stupid? - Kathryn Jezer-Morton - The Cut

Tiktok account of @gwenthemilkmaid (lol)

The male loneliness epidemic and how it affects fathers - Shannon Carpenter - CNN

Ancient Greek Symposia - Getty Museum

Ancient Greek homes doubled as pubs, brothels - Rossella Lorenzi - NBC News

Life of the Party in Ancient China - Sotheby's

Medieval Fairs - StudySmarter UK

Do You Work Longer Hours Than a Medieval Peasant? - Nancy Bilyeau - Medium

Courtly Dance in the Early Renaissance - Encyclopedia.com

A Baroque Ball Nourishes Fantasy - Dawn Lille - Art Times Journal

Social Dances of the Nineteenth Century - Richard Powers - Social Dance at Stanford handout

History and Culture: Regency Balls - Gretchen Gales - Quail Bell Magazine

Dance Halls - Encyclopedia.com

The Palais Royale Ballroom: Where They Danced for Joy - Lost Oregon

Vaudeville America homepage

Berlin Story - Alex Ross - The New Yorker

17 Reasons Why Germany's Weimar Republic Was a Party-Lovers Paradise - D.G. Hewitt - History Collection

In Nazi-Occupied Paris, Swing Kids had their own Resistance Movement - Cecile Paul - Messy Nessy

Pierre Seel - Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

"Swing Heil": Swing Youth, Schlurfs, and others in Nazi Germany - National WWII Museum

The Day Disco was Demolished - Chris Vognar - NYT

Reimagining Underground Rave Culture - Emily Witt - The New Yorker

Raves Rock On, Laws or Not - Chicago Tribune

How Hip-Hop Was Born 50 Years Ago in a Block Party in the Bronx - Briana A. Thomas - Smithsonian Magazine

The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community - Ray Oldenburg

A Case for Living Closer to Your Friends - Cat Sarsfield - Substack

Online Communities - Part 2: The Internet, Communities, and Virtual "Third Place" - John B. Horrigan - Pew Research Center

How homelessness in Oregon started, grew and became a statewide crisis - Alex Zielinski - OPB

In Year's First Six Months, County Spent Less Than Half Its Budgeted Metro Homeless Services Money - Nigel Jaquiss - Willamette Week

Homelessness - Portland.gov

Tiktok account of @ashleyteacozy

media supplement!

Jersey Shore

Like a G6 - Far East Movement

Incels - Contrapoints

Mad Men

Becoming Jane (2007)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Party Monster (2003)

third places, stanley cup mania, and the epidemic of loneliness - Mina Le

Break My Soul - Beyonce

Jellyfish Jam - Spongebob Squarepants S1 E7b

Nowhere (1997)

24 Hour Party People (2002)

Beats (2019)

Heaven Knows - Pinkpantheress

Untrue - Burial

Music Has the Right to Children - Boards of Canada

Notes on a Conditional Form - The 1975

Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin

Product - SOPHIE

Ambient 1: Music for Airports - Brian Eno

Original Pirate Material - The Streets

Planet of the Bass - DJ Crazy Times (aka Kyle Gordon) and Ms. Biljana

The Hills

Zillennial Breakdown podcast

Poor Things (2023)

Sweetbitter - Stephanie Danler

Berlin - Bea Setton

considering this one a bonus episode because it's mostly me rambling about stuff I like, but I wanted to get something up and I've been thinking about PC Music a lot lately in this short time before its forever demise. Enjoy!!

Sources (besides, like, Google and my brain):

10 Best Charli XCX Songs Written for Other Artists

"I Love It" on HBO's Hit Series 'Girls'

SOPHIE Says She's Working on Lady Gaga's New Album

A. G. Cook interview (not accessible anymore but the quote I used is traced back here I hate the internet)

PC Music: The Future of Pop or 'Contemptuous Parody'? (really recommend this one)

Five Years On, Charli XCX & SOPHIE's 'Vroom Vroom' Still Sounds Like the Future

The Outsized Influence of PC Music

PC Music: Clubland's Cute New Direction

Red Bull: A Conversation With... Charli XCX

SOPHIE's Musical Influences (List)

Bubblegum Bass - Music Genre

Hyperpop - Music Genre

Breakcore

With Sped-Up Songs Taking Over, Artists Feel the Need for Speed

PC Music Retirement Post (A. G. Cook)

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before you listen to this, here are some of the links to the articles I sourced for this ep. would really recommend reading these, i feel like i kind of rushed through that section out of nervousness that i would misconstrue something so go check the main sources! thanks! be immune to apologia and propaganda if you can help it.

No, Palestinians Are Not Faking the Devastation in Gaza

Lies on Social Media Inflame Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Bonus (because I think it's funny):

Facemash Creator Survives Ad Board

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In this weeks episode (sorry for the gap lol, I moved to a new apartment and was really busy and you're just going to have to deal with that) we talk about what makes someone a Girls' Girl or a Pick-Me, a Madonna-Whore complex for a new age of girlbosses and gatekeepers. Ariana Grande is here (spiritually) to help us dissect what exactly is so appealing about pitting the gals against each other. Other topics include homoerotic fan fiction, Russell Brand, and getting a pint with the boys.

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this is a new thing I'm doing. welcome to it. in this one, we cover creating a new red scare for normal people, the babyfication of american culture, and taylor swift's monopoly over the concept of girlhood.

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